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  <section id="module-datetime">
<span id="datetime-basic-date-and-time-types"></span><h1><a class="reference internal" href="#module-datetime" title="datetime: Basic date and time types."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> — Basic date and time types<a class="headerlink" href="#module-datetime" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p><strong>Source code:</strong> <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/python/cpython/tree/3.9/Lib/datetime.py">Lib/datetime.py</a></p>
<hr class="docutils" />
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-datetime" title="datetime: Basic date and time types."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> module supplies classes for manipulating dates and times.</p>
<p>While date and time arithmetic is supported, the focus of the implementation is
on efficient attribute extraction for output formatting and manipulation.</p>
<div class="admonition seealso">
<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
<dl class="simple">
<dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="calendar.html#module-calendar" title="calendar: Functions for working with calendars, including some emulation of the Unix cal program."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">calendar</span></code></a></dt><dd><p>General calendar related functions.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Module <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#module-time" title="time: Time access and conversions."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a></dt><dd><p>Time access and conversions.</p>
</dd>
<dt>Package <a class="reference external" href="https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/">dateutil</a></dt><dd><p>Third-party library with expanded time zone and parsing support.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
<section id="aware-and-naive-objects">
<span id="datetime-naive-aware"></span><h2>Aware and Naive Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#aware-and-naive-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Date and time objects may be categorized as “aware” or “naive” depending on
whether or not they include timezone information.</p>
<p>With sufficient knowledge of applicable algorithmic and political time
adjustments, such as time zone and daylight saving time information,
an <strong>aware</strong> object can locate itself relative to other aware objects.
An aware object represents a specific moment in time that is not open to
interpretation. <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id5" id="id1">1</a></p>
<p>A <strong>naive</strong> object does not contain enough information to unambiguously locate
itself relative to other date/time objects. Whether a naive object represents
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), local time, or time in some other timezone is
purely up to the program, just like it is up to the program whether a
particular number represents metres, miles, or mass. Naive objects are easy to
understand and to work with, at the cost of ignoring some aspects of reality.</p>
<p>For applications requiring aware objects, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a>
objects have an optional time zone information attribute, <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code>, that
can be set to an instance of a subclass of the abstract <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> class.
These <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> objects capture information about the offset from UTC
time, the time zone name, and whether daylight saving time is in effect.</p>
<p>Only one concrete <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> class, the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timezone" title="datetime.timezone"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timezone</span></code></a> class, is
supplied by the <a class="reference internal" href="#module-datetime" title="datetime: Basic date and time types."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> module. The <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timezone" title="datetime.timezone"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timezone</span></code></a> class can
represent simple timezones with fixed offsets from UTC, such as UTC itself or
North American EST and EDT timezones. Supporting timezones at deeper levels of
detail is up to the application. The rules for time adjustment across the
world are more political than rational, change frequently, and there is no
standard suitable for every application aside from UTC.</p>
</section>
<section id="constants">
<h2>Constants<a class="headerlink" href="#constants" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-datetime" title="datetime: Basic date and time types."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> module exports the following constants:</p>
<dl class="data">
<dt id="datetime.MINYEAR">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">MINYEAR</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.MINYEAR" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The smallest year number allowed in a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object.
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.MINYEAR" title="datetime.MINYEAR"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MINYEAR</span></code></a> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="data">
<dt id="datetime.MAXYEAR">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">MAXYEAR</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.MAXYEAR" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The largest year number allowed in a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object.
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.MAXYEAR" title="datetime.MAXYEAR"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MAXYEAR</span></code></a> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">9999</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

</section>
<section id="available-types">
<h2>Available Types<a class="headerlink" href="#available-types" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<dl class="class">
<dt>
<em class="property">class </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">date</code></dt>
<dd><p>An idealized naive date, assuming the current Gregorian calendar always was, and
always will be, in effect. Attributes: <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date.year" title="datetime.date.year"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">year</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date.month" title="datetime.date.month"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">month</span></code></a>, and
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date.day" title="datetime.date.day"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">day</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt>
<em class="property">class </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">time</code></dt>
<dd><p>An idealized time, independent of any particular day, assuming that every day
has exactly 24*60*60 seconds.  (There is no notion of “leap seconds” here.)
Attributes: <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.hour" title="datetime.time.hour"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hour</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.minute" title="datetime.time.minute"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">minute</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.second" title="datetime.time.second"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">second</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.microsecond" title="datetime.time.microsecond"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">microsecond</span></code></a>,
and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.tzinfo" title="datetime.time.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt>
<em class="property">class </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">datetime</code></dt>
<dd><p>A combination of a date and a time. Attributes: <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.year" title="datetime.datetime.year"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">year</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.month" title="datetime.datetime.month"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">month</span></code></a>,
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.day" title="datetime.datetime.day"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">day</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.hour" title="datetime.datetime.hour"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hour</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.minute" title="datetime.datetime.minute"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">minute</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.second" title="datetime.datetime.second"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">second</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.microsecond" title="datetime.datetime.microsecond"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">microsecond</span></code></a>,
and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt>
<em class="property">class </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">timedelta</code></dt>
<dd><p>A duration expressing the difference between two <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a>,
or <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> instances to microsecond resolution.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt>
<em class="property">class </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">tzinfo</code></dt>
<dd><p>An abstract base class for time zone information objects. These are used by the
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> classes to provide a customizable notion of
time adjustment (for example, to account for time zone and/or daylight saving
time).</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="class">
<dt>
<em class="property">class </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">timezone</code></dt>
<dd><p>A class that implements the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> abstract base class as a
fixed offset from the UTC.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.2.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<p>Objects of these types are immutable.</p>
<p>Subclass relationships:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">object</span>
    <span class="n">timedelta</span>
    <span class="n">tzinfo</span>
        <span class="n">timezone</span>
    <span class="n">time</span>
    <span class="n">date</span>
        <span class="n">datetime</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<section id="common-properties">
<h3>Common Properties<a class="headerlink" href="#common-properties" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a>, and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timezone" title="datetime.timezone"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timezone</span></code></a> types
share these common features:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>Objects of these types are immutable.</p></li>
<li><p>Objects of these types are hashable, meaning that they can be used as
dictionary keys.</p></li>
<li><p>Objects of these types support efficient pickling via the <a class="reference internal" href="pickle.html#module-pickle" title="pickle: Convert Python objects to streams of bytes and back."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pickle</span></code></a> module.</p></li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="determining-if-an-object-is-aware-or-naive">
<h3>Determining if an Object is Aware or Naive<a class="headerlink" href="#determining-if-an-object-is-aware-or-naive" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Objects of the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> type are always naive.</p>
<p>An object of type <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> may be aware or naive.</p>
<p>A <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object <em>d</em> is aware if both of the following hold:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">d.tzinfo</span></code> is not <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">d.tzinfo.utcoffset(d)</span></code> does not return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></p></li>
</ol>
<p>Otherwise, <em>d</em> is naive.</p>
<p>A <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> object <em>t</em> is aware if both of the following hold:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">t.tzinfo</span></code> is not <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">t.tzinfo.utcoffset(None)</span></code> does not return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>Otherwise, <em>t</em> is naive.</p>
<p>The distinction between aware and naive doesn’t apply to <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a>
objects.</p>
</section>
</section>
<section id="timedelta-objects">
<span id="datetime-timedelta"></span><h2><a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#timedelta-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>A <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object represents a duration, the difference between two
dates or times.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="datetime.timedelta">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">timedelta</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">days=0</em>, <em class="sig-param">seconds=0</em>, <em class="sig-param">microseconds=0</em>, <em class="sig-param">milliseconds=0</em>, <em class="sig-param">minutes=0</em>, <em class="sig-param">hours=0</em>, <em class="sig-param">weeks=0</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>All arguments are optional and default to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span></code>. Arguments may be integers
or floats, and may be positive or negative.</p>
<p>Only <em>days</em>, <em>seconds</em> and <em>microseconds</em> are stored internally.
Arguments are converted to those units:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p>A millisecond is converted to 1000 microseconds.</p></li>
<li><p>A minute is converted to 60 seconds.</p></li>
<li><p>An hour is converted to 3600 seconds.</p></li>
<li><p>A week is converted to 7 days.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>and days, seconds and microseconds are then normalized so that the
representation is unique, with</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">microseconds</span> <span class="pre">&lt;</span> <span class="pre">1000000</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">seconds</span> <span class="pre">&lt;</span> <span class="pre">3600*24</span></code> (the number of seconds in one day)</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-999999999</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">days</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">999999999</span></code></p></li>
</ul>
<p>The following example illustrates how any arguments besides
<em>days</em>, <em>seconds</em> and <em>microseconds</em> are “merged” and normalized into those
three resulting attributes:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">delta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="n">days</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">50</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="n">seconds</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">27</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="n">microseconds</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="n">milliseconds</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">29000</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="n">minutes</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="n">hours</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">8</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="n">weeks</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span>
<span class="gp">... </span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="c1"># Only days, seconds, and microseconds remain</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">delta</span>
<span class="go">datetime.timedelta(days=64, seconds=29156, microseconds=10)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>If any argument is a float and there are fractional microseconds,
the fractional microseconds left over from all arguments are
combined and their sum is rounded to the nearest microsecond using
round-half-to-even tiebreaker. If no argument is a float, the
conversion and normalization processes are exact (no information is
lost).</p>
<p>If the normalized value of days lies outside the indicated range,
<a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OverflowError" title="OverflowError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OverflowError</span></code></a> is raised.</p>
<p>Note that normalization of negative values may be surprising at first. For
example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">d</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">microseconds</span><span class="o">=-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">days</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">seconds</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">microseconds</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">(-1, 86399, 999999)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<p>Class attributes:</p>
<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.timedelta.min">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">timedelta.</code><code class="sig-name descname">min</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.timedelta.min" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The most negative <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta(-999999999)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.timedelta.max">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">timedelta.</code><code class="sig-name descname">max</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.timedelta.max" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The most positive <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta(days=999999999,</span>
<span class="pre">hours=23,</span> <span class="pre">minutes=59,</span> <span class="pre">seconds=59,</span> <span class="pre">microseconds=999999)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.timedelta.resolution">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">timedelta.</code><code class="sig-name descname">resolution</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.timedelta.resolution" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The smallest possible difference between non-equal <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> objects,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta(microseconds=1)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<p>Note that, because of normalization, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta.max</span></code> &gt; <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-timedelta.min</span></code>.
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-timedelta.max</span></code> is not representable as a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object.</p>
<p>Instance attributes (read-only):</p>
<table class="docutils align-default">
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 29%" />
<col style="width: 71%" />
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Attribute</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Value</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">days</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Between -999999999 and 999999999 inclusive</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">seconds</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Between 0 and 86399 inclusive</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">microseconds</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Between 0 and 999999 inclusive</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Supported operations:</p>
<table class="docutils align-default">
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 41%" />
<col style="width: 59%" />
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Operation</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Result</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">t1</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">t2</span> <span class="pre">+</span> <span class="pre">t3</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Sum of <em>t2</em> and <em>t3</em>. Afterwards <em>t1</em>-<em>t2</em> ==
<em>t3</em> and <em>t1</em>-<em>t3</em> == <em>t2</em> are true. (1)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">t1</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">t2</span> <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">t3</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Difference of <em>t2</em> and <em>t3</em>. Afterwards <em>t1</em>
== <em>t2</em> - <em>t3</em> and <em>t2</em> == <em>t1</em> + <em>t3</em> are
true. (1)(6)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">t1</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">t2</span> <span class="pre">*</span> <span class="pre">i</span> <span class="pre">or</span> <span class="pre">t1</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">i</span> <span class="pre">*</span> <span class="pre">t2</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Delta multiplied by an integer.
Afterwards <em>t1</em> // i == <em>t2</em> is true,
provided <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">i</span> <span class="pre">!=</span> <span class="pre">0</span></code>.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td></td>
<td><p>In general, <em>t1</em> * i == <em>t1</em> * (i-1) + <em>t1</em>
is true. (1)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">t1</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">t2</span> <span class="pre">*</span> <span class="pre">f</span> <span class="pre">or</span> <span class="pre">t1</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">f</span> <span class="pre">*</span> <span class="pre">t2</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Delta multiplied by a float. The result is
rounded to the nearest multiple of
timedelta.resolution using round-half-to-even.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">f</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">t2</span> <span class="pre">/</span> <span class="pre">t3</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Division (3) of overall duration <em>t2</em> by
interval unit <em>t3</em>. Returns a <a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">float</span></code></a>
object.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">t1</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">t2</span> <span class="pre">/</span> <span class="pre">f</span> <span class="pre">or</span> <span class="pre">t1</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">t2</span> <span class="pre">/</span> <span class="pre">i</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Delta divided by a float or an int. The result
is rounded to the nearest multiple of
timedelta.resolution using round-half-to-even.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">t1</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">t2</span> <span class="pre">//</span> <span class="pre">i</span></code> or
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">t1</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">t2</span> <span class="pre">//</span> <span class="pre">t3</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>The floor is computed and the remainder (if
any) is thrown away. In the second case, an
integer is returned. (3)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">t1</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">t2</span> <span class="pre">%</span> <span class="pre">t3</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>The remainder is computed as a
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object. (3)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">q,</span> <span class="pre">r</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">divmod(t1,</span> <span class="pre">t2)</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Computes the quotient and the remainder:
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">q</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">t1</span> <span class="pre">//</span> <span class="pre">t2</span></code> (3) and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">r</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">t1</span> <span class="pre">%</span> <span class="pre">t2</span></code>.
q is an integer and r is a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a>
object.</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">+t1</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Returns a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object with the
same value. (2)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-t1</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>equivalent to
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a>(-<em>t1.days</em>,
-<em>t1.seconds</em>, -<em>t1.microseconds</em>),
and to <em>t1</em>* -1. (1)(4)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">abs(t)</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>equivalent to +<em>t</em> when <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">t.days</span> <span class="pre">&gt;=</span> <span class="pre">0</span></code>,
and to -<em>t</em> when <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">t.days</span> <span class="pre">&lt;</span> <span class="pre">0</span></code>. (2)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str(t)</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Returns a string in the form
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">[D</span> <span class="pre">day[s],</span> <span class="pre">][H]H:MM:SS[.UUUUUU]</span></code>, where D
is negative for negative <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">t</span></code>. (5)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">repr(t)</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Returns a string representation of the
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object as a constructor
call with canonical attribute values.</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Notes:</p>
<ol class="arabic">
<li><p>This is exact but may overflow.</p></li>
<li><p>This is exact and cannot overflow.</p></li>
<li><p>Division by 0 raises <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ZeroDivisionError" title="ZeroDivisionError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ZeroDivisionError</span></code></a>.</p></li>
<li><p>-<em>timedelta.max</em> is not representable as a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object.</p></li>
<li><p>String representations of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> objects are normalized
similarly to their internal representation. This leads to somewhat
unusual results for negative timedeltas. For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hours</span><span class="o">=-</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">datetime.timedelta(days=-1, seconds=68400)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">_</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">-1 day, 19:00:00</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p>The expression <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">t2</span> <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">t3</span></code> will always be equal to the expression <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">t2</span> <span class="pre">+</span> <span class="pre">(-t3)</span></code> except
when t3 is equal to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta.max</span></code>; in that case the former will produce a result
while the latter will overflow.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>In addition to the operations listed above, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> objects support
certain additions and subtractions with <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a>
objects (see below).</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.2: </span>Floor division and true division of a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object by another
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object are now supported, as are remainder operations and
the <a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#divmod" title="divmod"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">divmod()</span></code></a> function. True division and multiplication of a
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object by a <a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">float</span></code></a> object are now supported.</p>
</div>
<p>Comparisons of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> objects are supported, with some caveats.</p>
<p>The comparisons <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">==</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">!=</span></code> <em>always</em> return a <a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#bool" title="bool"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">bool</span></code></a>, no matter
the type of the compared object:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">delta1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seconds</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">57</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">delta2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hours</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">25</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">seconds</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">delta2</span> <span class="o">!=</span> <span class="n">delta1</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">delta2</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="mi">5</span>
<span class="go">False</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>For all other comparisons (such as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&lt;</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&gt;</span></code>), when a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a>
object is compared to an object of a different type, <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#TypeError" title="TypeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a>
is raised:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">delta2</span> <span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="n">delta1</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">delta2</span> <span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="mi">5</span>
<span class="gt">Traceback (most recent call last):</span>
  File <span class="nb">&quot;&lt;stdin&gt;&quot;</span>, line <span class="m">1</span>, in <span class="n">&lt;module&gt;</span>
<span class="gr">TypeError</span>: <span class="n">&#39;&gt;&#39; not supported between instances of &#39;datetime.timedelta&#39; and &#39;int&#39;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>In Boolean contexts, a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object is
considered to be true if and only if it isn’t equal to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta(0)</span></code>.</p>
<p>Instance methods:</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.timedelta.total_seconds">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">timedelta.</code><code class="sig-name descname">total_seconds</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.timedelta.total_seconds" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the total number of seconds contained in the duration. Equivalent to
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">td</span> <span class="pre">/</span> <span class="pre">timedelta(seconds=1)</span></code>. For interval units other than seconds, use the
division form directly (e.g. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">td</span> <span class="pre">/</span> <span class="pre">timedelta(microseconds=1)</span></code>).</p>
<p>Note that for very large time intervals (greater than 270 years on
most platforms) this method will lose microsecond accuracy.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.2.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<section id="examples-of-usage-timedelta">
<h3>Examples of usage: <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a><a class="headerlink" href="#examples-of-usage-timedelta" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>An additional example of normalization:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="c1"># Components of another_year add up to exactly 365 days</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">year</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">days</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">365</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">another_year</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">weeks</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">40</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">days</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">84</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">hours</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">23</span><span class="p">,</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>                         <span class="n">minutes</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">50</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">seconds</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">600</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">year</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">another_year</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">year</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">total_seconds</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="go">31536000.0</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Examples of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> arithmetic:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">year</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">days</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">365</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">ten_years</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">10</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="n">year</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">ten_years</span>
<span class="go">datetime.timedelta(days=3650)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">ten_years</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">days</span> <span class="o">//</span> <span class="mi">365</span>
<span class="go">10</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">nine_years</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">ten_years</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">year</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">nine_years</span>
<span class="go">datetime.timedelta(days=3285)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">three_years</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">nine_years</span> <span class="o">//</span> <span class="mi">3</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">three_years</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">three_years</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">days</span> <span class="o">//</span> <span class="mi">365</span>
<span class="go">(datetime.timedelta(days=1095), 3)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
</section>
<section id="date-objects">
<span id="datetime-date"></span><h2><a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#date-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>A <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> object represents a date (year, month and day) in an idealized
calendar, the current Gregorian calendar indefinitely extended in both
directions.</p>
<p>January 1 of year 1 is called day number 1, January 2 of year 1 is
called day number 2, and so on. <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id6" id="id2">2</a></p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="datetime.date">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">date</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">year</em>, <em class="sig-param">month</em>, <em class="sig-param">day</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>All arguments are required. Arguments must be integers, in the following
ranges:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MINYEAR</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">year</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">MAXYEAR</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">month</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">12</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">day</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">number</span> <span class="pre">of</span> <span class="pre">days</span> <span class="pre">in</span> <span class="pre">the</span> <span class="pre">given</span> <span class="pre">month</span> <span class="pre">and</span> <span class="pre">year</span></code></p></li>
</ul>
<p>If an argument outside those ranges is given, <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> is raised.</p>
</dd></dl>

<p>Other constructors, all class methods:</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.date.today">
<em class="property">classmethod </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">today</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.today" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the current local date.</p>
<p>This is equivalent to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date.fromtimestamp(time.time())</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.date.fromtimestamp">
<em class="property">classmethod </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">fromtimestamp</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">timestamp</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.fromtimestamp" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the local date corresponding to the POSIX timestamp, such as is
returned by <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.time()</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>This may raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OverflowError" title="OverflowError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OverflowError</span></code></a>, if the timestamp is out
of the range of values supported by the platform C <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code>
function, and <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OSError" title="OSError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OSError</span></code></a> on <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code> failure.
It’s common for this to be restricted to years from 1970 through 2038. Note
that on non-POSIX systems that include leap seconds in their notion of a
timestamp, leap seconds are ignored by <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date.fromtimestamp" title="datetime.date.fromtimestamp"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fromtimestamp()</span></code></a>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span>Raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OverflowError" title="OverflowError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OverflowError</span></code></a> instead of <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> if the timestamp
is out of the range of values supported by the platform C
<code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code> function. Raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OSError" title="OSError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OSError</span></code></a> instead of
<a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> on <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code> failure.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.date.fromordinal">
<em class="property">classmethod </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">fromordinal</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">ordinal</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.fromordinal" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the date corresponding to the proleptic Gregorian ordinal, where
January 1 of year 1 has ordinal 1.</p>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> is raised unless <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">ordinal</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span>
<span class="pre">date.max.toordinal()</span></code>. For any date <em>d</em>,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date.fromordinal(d.toordinal())</span> <span class="pre">==</span> <span class="pre">d</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.date.fromisoformat">
<em class="property">classmethod </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">fromisoformat</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">date_string</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.fromisoformat" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> corresponding to a <em>date_string</em> given in the format
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">YYYY-MM-DD</span></code>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">date</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">date</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fromisoformat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;2019-12-04&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">datetime.date(2019, 12, 4)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>This is the inverse of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date.isoformat" title="datetime.date.isoformat"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date.isoformat()</span></code></a>. It only supports the format
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">YYYY-MM-DD</span></code>.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.7.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.date.fromisocalendar">
<em class="property">classmethod </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">fromisocalendar</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">year</em>, <em class="sig-param">week</em>, <em class="sig-param">day</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.fromisocalendar" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> corresponding to the ISO calendar date specified by
year, week and day. This is the inverse of the function <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date.isocalendar" title="datetime.date.isocalendar"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date.isocalendar()</span></code></a>.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.8.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<p>Class attributes:</p>
<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.date.min">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">min</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.min" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The earliest representable date, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date(MINYEAR,</span> <span class="pre">1,</span> <span class="pre">1)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.date.max">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">max</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.max" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The latest representable date, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date(MAXYEAR,</span> <span class="pre">12,</span> <span class="pre">31)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.date.resolution">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">resolution</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.resolution" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The smallest possible difference between non-equal date objects,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta(days=1)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<p>Instance attributes (read-only):</p>
<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.date.year">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">year</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.year" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Between <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.MINYEAR" title="datetime.MINYEAR"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MINYEAR</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.MAXYEAR" title="datetime.MAXYEAR"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MAXYEAR</span></code></a> inclusive.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.date.month">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">month</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.month" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Between 1 and 12 inclusive.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.date.day">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">day</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.day" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Between 1 and the number of days in the given month of the given year.</p>
</dd></dl>

<p>Supported operations:</p>
<table class="docutils align-default">
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 40%" />
<col style="width: 60%" />
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Operation</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Result</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date2</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">date1</span> <span class="pre">+</span> <span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></p></td>
<td><p><em>date2</em> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta.days</span></code> days removed
from <em>date1</em>. (1)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date2</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">date1</span> <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Computes <em>date2</em> such that <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date2</span> <span class="pre">+</span>
<span class="pre">timedelta</span> <span class="pre">==</span> <span class="pre">date1</span></code>. (2)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">date1</span> <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">date2</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>(3)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date1</span> <span class="pre">&lt;</span> <span class="pre">date2</span></code></p></td>
<td><p><em>date1</em> is considered less than <em>date2</em> when
<em>date1</em> precedes <em>date2</em> in time. (4)</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Notes:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li><p><em>date2</em> is moved forward in time if <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta.days</span> <span class="pre">&gt;</span> <span class="pre">0</span></code>, or backward if
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta.days</span> <span class="pre">&lt;</span> <span class="pre">0</span></code>. Afterward <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date2</span> <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">date1</span> <span class="pre">==</span> <span class="pre">timedelta.days</span></code>.
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta.seconds</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta.microseconds</span></code> are ignored.
<a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OverflowError" title="OverflowError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OverflowError</span></code></a> is raised if <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date2.year</span></code> would be smaller than
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.MINYEAR" title="datetime.MINYEAR"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MINYEAR</span></code></a> or larger than <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.MAXYEAR" title="datetime.MAXYEAR"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MAXYEAR</span></code></a>.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta.seconds</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta.microseconds</span></code> are ignored.</p></li>
<li><p>This is exact, and cannot overflow. timedelta.seconds and
timedelta.microseconds are 0, and date2 + timedelta == date1 after.</p></li>
<li><p>In other words, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date1</span> <span class="pre">&lt;</span> <span class="pre">date2</span></code> if and only if <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date1.toordinal()</span> <span class="pre">&lt;</span>
<span class="pre">date2.toordinal()</span></code>. Date comparison raises <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#TypeError" title="TypeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a> if
the other comparand isn’t also a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> object. However,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NotImplemented</span></code> is returned instead if the other comparand has a
<code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timetuple()</span></code> attribute. This hook gives other kinds of date objects a
chance at implementing mixed-type comparison. If not, when a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a>
object is compared to an object of a different type, <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#TypeError" title="TypeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a> is raised
unless the comparison is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">==</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">!=</span></code>. The latter cases return
<a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#False" title="False"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#True" title="True"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code></a>, respectively.</p></li>
</ol>
<p>In Boolean contexts, all <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> objects are considered to be true.</p>
<p>Instance methods:</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.date.replace">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">replace</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">year=self.year</em>, <em class="sig-param">month=self.month</em>, <em class="sig-param">day=self.day</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.replace" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a date with the same value, except for those parameters given new
values by whichever keyword arguments are specified.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">date</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">d</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">date</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2002</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">31</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">day</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">26</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">datetime.date(2002, 12, 26)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.date.timetuple">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">timetuple</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.timetuple" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.struct_time</span></code></a> such as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.localtime()</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>The hours, minutes and seconds are 0, and the DST flag is -1.</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">d.timetuple()</span></code> is equivalent to:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">struct_time</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">year</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">month</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">day</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">weekday</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="n">yday</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">))</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>where <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">yday</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">d.toordinal()</span> <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">date(d.year,</span> <span class="pre">1,</span> <span class="pre">1).toordinal()</span> <span class="pre">+</span> <span class="pre">1</span></code>
is the day number within the current year starting with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1</span></code> for January 1st.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.date.toordinal">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">toordinal</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.toordinal" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the proleptic Gregorian ordinal of the date, where January 1 of year 1
has ordinal 1. For any <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> object <em>d</em>,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date.fromordinal(d.toordinal())</span> <span class="pre">==</span> <span class="pre">d</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.date.weekday">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">weekday</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.weekday" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the day of the week as an integer, where Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6.
For example, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date(2002,</span> <span class="pre">12,</span> <span class="pre">4).weekday()</span> <span class="pre">==</span> <span class="pre">2</span></code>, a Wednesday. See also
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date.isoweekday" title="datetime.date.isoweekday"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">isoweekday()</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.date.isoweekday">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">isoweekday</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.isoweekday" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the day of the week as an integer, where Monday is 1 and Sunday is 7.
For example, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date(2002,</span> <span class="pre">12,</span> <span class="pre">4).isoweekday()</span> <span class="pre">==</span> <span class="pre">3</span></code>, a Wednesday. See also
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date.weekday" title="datetime.date.weekday"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">weekday()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date.isocalendar" title="datetime.date.isocalendar"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">isocalendar()</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.date.isocalendar">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">isocalendar</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.isocalendar" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-named-tuple"><span class="xref std std-term">named tuple</span></a> object with three components: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">year</span></code>,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">week</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">weekday</span></code>.</p>
<p>The ISO calendar is a widely used variant of the Gregorian calendar. <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id7" id="id3">3</a></p>
<p>The ISO year consists of 52 or 53 full weeks, and where a week starts on a
Monday and ends on a Sunday. The first week of an ISO year is the first
(Gregorian) calendar week of a year containing a Thursday. This is called week
number 1, and the ISO year of that Thursday is the same as its Gregorian year.</p>
<p>For example, 2004 begins on a Thursday, so the first week of ISO year 2004
begins on Monday, 29 Dec 2003 and ends on Sunday, 4 Jan 2004:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">date</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">date</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2003</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">29</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isocalendar</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="go">datetime.IsoCalendarDate(year=2004, week=1, weekday=1)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">date</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2004</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isocalendar</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="go">datetime.IsoCalendarDate(year=2004, week=1, weekday=7)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.9: </span>Result changed from a tuple to a <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-named-tuple"><span class="xref std std-term">named tuple</span></a>.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.date.isoformat">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">isoformat</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.isoformat" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a string representing the date in ISO 8601 format, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">YYYY-MM-DD</span></code>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">date</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">date</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2002</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isoformat</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="go">&#39;2002-12-04&#39;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>This is the inverse of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date.fromisoformat" title="datetime.date.fromisoformat"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date.fromisoformat()</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.date.__str__">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">__str__</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.__str__" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>For a date <em>d</em>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str(d)</span></code> is equivalent to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">d.isoformat()</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.date.ctime">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">ctime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.ctime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a string representing the date:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">date</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">date</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2002</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ctime</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="go">&#39;Wed Dec  4 00:00:00 2002&#39;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">d.ctime()</span></code> is equivalent to:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ctime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">mktime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">timetuple</span><span class="p">()))</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>on platforms where the native C
<code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ctime()</span></code> function (which <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#time.ctime" title="time.ctime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.ctime()</span></code></a> invokes, but which
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date.ctime" title="datetime.date.ctime"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date.ctime()</span></code></a> does not invoke) conforms to the C standard.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.date.strftime">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">strftime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">format</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.strftime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a string representing the date, controlled by an explicit format string.
Format codes referring to hours, minutes or seconds will see 0 values. For a
complete list of formatting directives, see
<a class="reference internal" href="#strftime-strptime-behavior"><span class="std std-ref">strftime() and strptime() Behavior</span></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.date.__format__">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">date.</code><code class="sig-name descname">__format__</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">format</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.date.__format__" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Same as <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date.strftime" title="datetime.date.strftime"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date.strftime()</span></code></a>. This makes it possible to specify a format
string for a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> object in <a class="reference internal" href="../reference/lexical_analysis.html#f-strings"><span class="std std-ref">formatted string
literals</span></a> and when using <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str.format" title="str.format"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str.format()</span></code></a>. For a
complete list of formatting directives, see
<a class="reference internal" href="#strftime-strptime-behavior"><span class="std std-ref">strftime() and strptime() Behavior</span></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<section id="examples-of-usage-date">
<h3>Examples of Usage: <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a><a class="headerlink" href="#examples-of-usage-date" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Example of counting days to an event:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">time</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">date</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">today</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">date</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">today</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">today</span>
<span class="go">datetime.date(2007, 12, 5)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">today</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">date</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fromtimestamp</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="p">())</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_birthday</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">date</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">today</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">year</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">6</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">24</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">my_birthday</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="n">today</span><span class="p">:</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="n">my_birthday</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">my_birthday</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">year</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">today</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">year</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">my_birthday</span>
<span class="go">datetime.date(2008, 6, 24)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">time_to_birthday</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="nb">abs</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">my_birthday</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">today</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">time_to_birthday</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">days</span>
<span class="go">202</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>More examples of working with <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a>:</p>
<div class="highlight-pycon3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">date</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">d</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">date</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fromordinal</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">730920</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="c1"># 730920th day after 1. 1. 0001</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">d</span>
<span class="go">datetime.date(2002, 3, 11)</span>

<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="c1"># Methods related to formatting string output</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isoformat</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="go">&#39;2002-03-11&#39;</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strftime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s2">/%m/%y&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">&#39;11/03/02&#39;</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strftime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;%A </span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s2">. %B %Y&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">&#39;Monday 11. March 2002&#39;</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ctime</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="go">&#39;Mon Mar 11 00:00:00 2002&#39;</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="s1">&#39;The </span><span class="si">{1}</span><span class="s1"> is {0:</span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s1">}, the </span><span class="si">{2}</span><span class="s1"> is {0:%B}.&#39;</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">d</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;day&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;month&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">&#39;The day is 11, the month is March.&#39;</span>

<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="c1"># Methods for to extracting &#39;components&#39; under different calendars</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">t</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">timetuple</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">t</span><span class="p">:</span>     
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">i</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">2002                # year</span>
<span class="go">3                   # month</span>
<span class="go">11                  # day</span>
<span class="go">0</span>
<span class="go">0</span>
<span class="go">0</span>
<span class="go">0                   # weekday (0 = Monday)</span>
<span class="go">70                  # 70th day in the year</span>
<span class="go">-1</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">ic</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isocalendar</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">ic</span><span class="p">:</span>    
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">i</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">2002                # ISO year</span>
<span class="go">11                  # ISO week number</span>
<span class="go">1                   # ISO day number ( 1 = Monday )</span>

<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="c1"># A date object is immutable; all operations produce a new object</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">year</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">2005</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">datetime.date(2005, 3, 11)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
</section>
<section id="datetime-objects">
<span id="datetime-datetime"></span><h2><a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#datetime-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>A <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object is a single object containing all the information
from a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> object and a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> object.</p>
<p>Like a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> object, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> assumes the current Gregorian
calendar extended in both directions; like a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> object,
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> assumes there are exactly 3600*24 seconds in every day.</p>
<p>Constructor:</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="datetime.datetime">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">datetime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">year</em>, <em class="sig-param">month</em>, <em class="sig-param">day</em>, <em class="sig-param">hour=0</em>, <em class="sig-param">minute=0</em>, <em class="sig-param">second=0</em>, <em class="sig-param">microsecond=0</em>, <em class="sig-param">tzinfo=None</em>, <em class="sig-param">*</em>, <em class="sig-param">fold=0</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The <em>year</em>, <em>month</em> and <em>day</em> arguments are required. <em>tzinfo</em> may be <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, or an
instance of a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> subclass. The remaining arguments must be integers
in the following ranges:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MINYEAR</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">year</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">MAXYEAR</span></code>,</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">month</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">12</span></code>,</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">day</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">number</span> <span class="pre">of</span> <span class="pre">days</span> <span class="pre">in</span> <span class="pre">the</span> <span class="pre">given</span> <span class="pre">month</span> <span class="pre">and</span> <span class="pre">year</span></code>,</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">hour</span> <span class="pre">&lt;</span> <span class="pre">24</span></code>,</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">minute</span> <span class="pre">&lt;</span> <span class="pre">60</span></code>,</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">second</span> <span class="pre">&lt;</span> <span class="pre">60</span></code>,</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">microsecond</span> <span class="pre">&lt;</span> <span class="pre">1000000</span></code>,</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fold</span> <span class="pre">in</span> <span class="pre">[0,</span> <span class="pre">1]</span></code>.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>If an argument outside those ranges is given, <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> is raised.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.6: </span>Added the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fold</span></code> argument.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<p>Other constructors, all class methods:</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.today">
<em class="property">classmethod </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">today</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.today" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the current local datetime, with <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>.</p>
<p>Equivalent to:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fromtimestamp</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="p">())</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>See also <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.now" title="datetime.datetime.now"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">now()</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp" title="datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fromtimestamp()</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>This method is functionally equivalent to <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.now" title="datetime.datetime.now"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">now()</span></code></a>, but without a
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tz</span></code> parameter.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.now">
<em class="property">classmethod </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">now</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">tz=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.now" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the current local date and time.</p>
<p>If optional argument <em>tz</em> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>
or not specified, this is like <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.today" title="datetime.datetime.today"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">today()</span></code></a>, but, if possible, supplies more
precision than can be gotten from going through a <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.time()</span></code></a> timestamp
(for example, this may be possible on platforms supplying the C
<code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gettimeofday()</span></code> function).</p>
<p>If <em>tz</em> is not <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, it must be an instance of a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> subclass,
and the current date and time are converted to <em>tz</em>’s time zone.</p>
<p>This function is preferred over <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.today" title="datetime.datetime.today"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">today()</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.utcnow" title="datetime.datetime.utcnow"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">utcnow()</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.utcnow">
<em class="property">classmethod </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">utcnow</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.utcnow" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the current UTC date and time, with <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>.</p>
<p>This is like <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.now" title="datetime.datetime.now"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">now()</span></code></a>, but returns the current UTC date and time, as a naive
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object. An aware current UTC datetime can be obtained by
calling <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.now(timezone.utc)</span></code>. See also <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.now" title="datetime.datetime.now"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">now()</span></code></a>.</p>
<div class="admonition warning">
<p class="admonition-title">Warning</p>
<p>Because naive <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code> objects are treated by many <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code> methods
as local times, it is preferred to use aware datetimes to represent times
in UTC. As such, the recommended way to create an object representing the
current time in UTC is by calling <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.now(timezone.utc)</span></code>.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp">
<em class="property">classmethod </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">fromtimestamp</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">timestamp</em>, <em class="sig-param">tz=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the local date and time corresponding to the POSIX timestamp, such as is
returned by <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.time()</span></code></a>. If optional argument <em>tz</em> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> or not
specified, the timestamp is converted to the platform’s local date and time, and
the returned <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object is naive.</p>
<p>If <em>tz</em> is not <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, it must be an instance of a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> subclass, and the
timestamp is converted to <em>tz</em>’s time zone.</p>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp" title="datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fromtimestamp()</span></code></a> may raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OverflowError" title="OverflowError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OverflowError</span></code></a>, if the timestamp is out of
the range of values supported by the platform C <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code> or
<code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code> functions, and <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OSError" title="OSError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OSError</span></code></a> on <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code> or
<code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code> failure.
It’s common for this to be restricted to years in
1970 through 2038. Note that on non-POSIX systems that include leap seconds in
their notion of a timestamp, leap seconds are ignored by <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp" title="datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fromtimestamp()</span></code></a>,
and then it’s possible to have two timestamps differing by a second that yield
identical <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> objects. This method is preferred over
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp" title="datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">utcfromtimestamp()</span></code></a>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span>Raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OverflowError" title="OverflowError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OverflowError</span></code></a> instead of <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> if the timestamp
is out of the range of values supported by the platform C
<code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code> or <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code> functions. Raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OSError" title="OSError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OSError</span></code></a>
instead of <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> on <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">localtime()</span></code> or <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code>
failure.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.6: </span><a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp" title="datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fromtimestamp()</span></code></a> may return instances with <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.fold" title="datetime.datetime.fold"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fold</span></code></a> set to 1.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp">
<em class="property">classmethod </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">utcfromtimestamp</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">timestamp</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.utcfromtimestamp" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the UTC <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> corresponding to the POSIX timestamp, with
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>.  (The resulting object is naive.)</p>
<p>This may raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OverflowError" title="OverflowError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OverflowError</span></code></a>, if the timestamp is
out of the range of values supported by the platform C <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code> function,
and <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OSError" title="OSError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OSError</span></code></a> on <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code> failure.
It’s common for this to be restricted to years in 1970 through 2038.</p>
<p>To get an aware <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object, call <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp" title="datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fromtimestamp()</span></code></a>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fromtimestamp</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">timestamp</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">timezone</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utc</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>On the POSIX compliant platforms, it is equivalent to the following
expression:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1970</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">timezone</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utc</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seconds</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">timestamp</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>except the latter formula always supports the full years range: between
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.MINYEAR" title="datetime.MINYEAR"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MINYEAR</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.MAXYEAR" title="datetime.MAXYEAR"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MAXYEAR</span></code></a> inclusive.</p>
<div class="admonition warning">
<p class="admonition-title">Warning</p>
<p>Because naive <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code> objects are treated by many <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code> methods
as local times, it is preferred to use aware datetimes to represent times
in UTC. As such, the recommended way to create an object representing a
specific timestamp in UTC is by calling
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.fromtimestamp(timestamp,</span> <span class="pre">tz=timezone.utc)</span></code>.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span>Raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OverflowError" title="OverflowError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OverflowError</span></code></a> instead of <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> if the timestamp
is out of the range of values supported by the platform C
<code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code> function. Raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OSError" title="OSError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OSError</span></code></a> instead of
<a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> on <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">gmtime()</span></code> failure.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.fromordinal">
<em class="property">classmethod </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">fromordinal</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">ordinal</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.fromordinal" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> corresponding to the proleptic Gregorian ordinal,
where January 1 of year 1 has ordinal 1. <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> is raised unless <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1</span>
<span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">ordinal</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">datetime.max.toordinal()</span></code>. The hour, minute, second and
microsecond of the result are all 0, and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.combine">
<em class="property">classmethod </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">combine</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">date</em>, <em class="sig-param">time</em>, <em class="sig-param">tzinfo=self.tzinfo</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.combine" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a new <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object whose date components are equal to the
given <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> object’s, and whose time components
are equal to the given <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> object’s. If the <em>tzinfo</em>
argument is provided, its value is used to set the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> attribute
of the result, otherwise the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.tzinfo" title="datetime.time.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> attribute of the <em>time</em> argument
is used.</p>
<p>For any <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object <em>d</em>,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">d</span> <span class="pre">==</span> <span class="pre">datetime.combine(d.date(),</span> <span class="pre">d.time(),</span> <span class="pre">d.tzinfo)</span></code>. If date is a
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object, its time components and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> attributes
are ignored.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.6: </span>Added the <em>tzinfo</em> argument.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.fromisoformat">
<em class="property">classmethod </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">fromisoformat</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">date_string</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.fromisoformat" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> corresponding to a <em>date_string</em> in one of the
formats emitted by <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date.isoformat" title="datetime.date.isoformat"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date.isoformat()</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.isoformat" title="datetime.datetime.isoformat"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.isoformat()</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>Specifically, this function supports strings in the format:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>YYYY-MM-DD[*HH[:MM[:SS[.fff[fff]]]][+HH:MM[:SS[.ffffff]]]]
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>where <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">*</span></code> can match any single character.</p>
<div class="admonition caution">
<p class="admonition-title">Caution</p>
<p>This does <em>not</em> support parsing arbitrary ISO 8601 strings - it is only intended
as the inverse operation of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.isoformat" title="datetime.datetime.isoformat"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.isoformat()</span></code></a>. A more full-featured
ISO 8601 parser, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dateutil.parser.isoparse</span></code> is available in the third-party package
<a class="reference external" href="https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/parser.html#dateutil.parser.isoparse">dateutil</a>.</p>
</div>
<p>Examples:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">datetime</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fromisoformat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;2011-11-04&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">datetime.datetime(2011, 11, 4, 0, 0)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fromisoformat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;2011-11-04T00:05:23&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">datetime.datetime(2011, 11, 4, 0, 5, 23)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fromisoformat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;2011-11-04 00:05:23.283&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">datetime.datetime(2011, 11, 4, 0, 5, 23, 283000)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fromisoformat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;2011-11-04 00:05:23.283+00:00&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">datetime.datetime(2011, 11, 4, 0, 5, 23, 283000, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fromisoformat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;2011-11-04T00:05:23+04:00&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>   
<span class="go">datetime.datetime(2011, 11, 4, 0, 5, 23,</span>
<span class="go">    tzinfo=datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(seconds=14400)))</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.7.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.fromisocalendar">
<em class="property">classmethod </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">fromisocalendar</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">year</em>, <em class="sig-param">week</em>, <em class="sig-param">day</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.fromisocalendar" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> corresponding to the ISO calendar date specified
by year, week and day. The non-date components of the datetime are populated
with their normal default values. This is the inverse of the function
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.isocalendar" title="datetime.datetime.isocalendar"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.isocalendar()</span></code></a>.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.8.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.strptime">
<em class="property">classmethod </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">strptime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">date_string</em>, <em class="sig-param">format</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.strptime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> corresponding to <em>date_string</em>, parsed according to
<em>format</em>.</p>
<p>This is equivalent to:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strptime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">date_string</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nb">format</span><span class="p">)[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="mi">6</span><span class="p">]))</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> is raised if the date_string and format
can’t be parsed by <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#time.strptime" title="time.strptime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.strptime()</span></code></a> or if it returns a value which isn’t a
time tuple. For a complete list of formatting directives, see
<a class="reference internal" href="#strftime-strptime-behavior"><span class="std std-ref">strftime() and strptime() Behavior</span></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<p>Class attributes:</p>
<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.min">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">min</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.min" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The earliest representable <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime(MINYEAR,</span> <span class="pre">1,</span> <span class="pre">1,</span>
<span class="pre">tzinfo=None)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.max">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">max</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.max" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The latest representable <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime(MAXYEAR,</span> <span class="pre">12,</span> <span class="pre">31,</span> <span class="pre">23,</span> <span class="pre">59,</span>
<span class="pre">59,</span> <span class="pre">999999,</span> <span class="pre">tzinfo=None)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.resolution">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">resolution</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.resolution" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The smallest possible difference between non-equal <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> objects,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta(microseconds=1)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<p>Instance attributes (read-only):</p>
<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.year">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">year</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.year" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Between <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.MINYEAR" title="datetime.MINYEAR"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MINYEAR</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.MAXYEAR" title="datetime.MAXYEAR"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MAXYEAR</span></code></a> inclusive.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.month">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">month</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.month" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Between 1 and 12 inclusive.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.day">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">day</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.day" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Between 1 and the number of days in the given month of the given year.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.hour">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">hour</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.hour" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>In <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">range(24)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.minute">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">minute</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.minute" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>In <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">range(60)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.second">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">second</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.second" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>In <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">range(60)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.microsecond">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">microsecond</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.microsecond" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>In <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">range(1000000)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.tzinfo">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">tzinfo</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The object passed as the <em>tzinfo</em> argument to the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> constructor,
or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> if none was passed.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.fold">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">fold</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.fold" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>In <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">[0,</span> <span class="pre">1]</span></code>. Used to disambiguate wall times during a repeated interval. (A
repeated interval occurs when clocks are rolled back at the end of daylight saving
time or when the UTC offset for the current zone is decreased for political reasons.)
The value 0 (1) represents the earlier (later) of the two moments with the same wall
time representation.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.6.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<p>Supported operations:</p>
<table class="docutils align-default">
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 55%" />
<col style="width: 45%" />
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Operation</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Result</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime2</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">datetime1</span> <span class="pre">+</span> <span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>(1)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime2</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">datetime1</span> <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>(2)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">datetime1</span> <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">datetime2</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>(3)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime1</span> <span class="pre">&lt;</span> <span class="pre">datetime2</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Compares <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> to
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a>. (4)</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<ol class="arabic">
<li><p>datetime2 is a duration of timedelta removed from datetime1, moving forward in
time if <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta.days</span></code> &gt; 0, or backward if <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta.days</span></code> &lt; 0. The
result has the same <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> attribute as the input datetime, and
datetime2 - datetime1 == timedelta after. <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OverflowError" title="OverflowError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OverflowError</span></code></a> is raised if
datetime2.year would be smaller than <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.MINYEAR" title="datetime.MINYEAR"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MINYEAR</span></code></a> or larger than
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.MAXYEAR" title="datetime.MAXYEAR"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MAXYEAR</span></code></a>. Note that no time zone adjustments are done even if the
input is an aware object.</p></li>
<li><p>Computes the datetime2 such that datetime2 + timedelta == datetime1. As for
addition, the result has the same <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> attribute as the input
datetime, and no time zone adjustments are done even if the input is aware.</p></li>
<li><p>Subtraction of a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> from a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> is defined only if
both operands are naive, or if both are aware. If one is aware and the other is
naive, <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#TypeError" title="TypeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a> is raised.</p>
<p>If both are naive, or both are aware and have the same <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> attribute,
the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> attributes are ignored, and the result is a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a>
object <em>t</em> such that <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime2</span> <span class="pre">+</span> <span class="pre">t</span> <span class="pre">==</span> <span class="pre">datetime1</span></code>. No time zone adjustments
are done in this case.</p>
<p>If both are aware and have different <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> attributes, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">a-b</span></code> acts
as if <em>a</em> and <em>b</em> were first converted to naive UTC datetimes first. The
result is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">(a.replace(tzinfo=None)</span> <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">a.utcoffset())</span> <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">(b.replace(tzinfo=None)</span>
<span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">b.utcoffset())</span></code> except that the implementation never overflows.</p>
</li>
<li><p><em>datetime1</em> is considered less than <em>datetime2</em> when <em>datetime1</em> precedes
<em>datetime2</em> in time.</p>
<p>If one comparand is naive and the other is aware, <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#TypeError" title="TypeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a>
is raised if an order comparison is attempted. For equality
comparisons, naive instances are never equal to aware instances.</p>
<p>If both comparands are aware, and have the same <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> attribute, the
common <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> attribute is ignored and the base datetimes are
compared. If both comparands are aware and have different <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a>
attributes, the comparands are first adjusted by subtracting their UTC
offsets (obtained from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">self.utcoffset()</span></code>).</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span>Equality comparisons between aware and naive <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a>
instances don’t raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#TypeError" title="TypeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a>.</p>
</div>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>In order to stop comparison from falling back to the default scheme of comparing
object addresses, datetime comparison normally raises <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#TypeError" title="TypeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a> if the
other comparand isn’t also a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object. However,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NotImplemented</span></code> is returned instead if the other comparand has a
<code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timetuple()</span></code> attribute. This hook gives other kinds of date objects a
chance at implementing mixed-type comparison. If not, when a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a>
object is compared to an object of a different type, <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#TypeError" title="TypeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a> is raised
unless the comparison is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">==</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">!=</span></code>. The latter cases return
<a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#False" title="False"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#True" title="True"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code></a>, respectively.</p>
</div>
</li>
</ol>
<p>Instance methods:</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.date">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">date</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.date" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> object with same year, month and day.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.time">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">time</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.time" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> object with same hour, minute, second, microsecond and fold.
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>. See also method <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.timetz" title="datetime.datetime.timetz"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timetz()</span></code></a>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.6: </span>The fold value is copied to the returned <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> object.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.timetz">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">timetz</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.timetz" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> object with same hour, minute, second, microsecond, fold, and
tzinfo attributes. See also method <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#module-time" title="time: Time access and conversions."><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time()</span></code></a>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.6: </span>The fold value is copied to the returned <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> object.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.replace">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">replace</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">year=self.year</em>, <em class="sig-param">month=self.month</em>, <em class="sig-param">day=self.day</em>, <em class="sig-param">hour=self.hour</em>, <em class="sig-param">minute=self.minute</em>, <em class="sig-param">second=self.second</em>, <em class="sig-param">microsecond=self.microsecond</em>, <em class="sig-param">tzinfo=self.tzinfo</em>, <em class="sig-param">*</em>, <em class="sig-param">fold=0</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.replace" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a datetime with the same attributes, except for those attributes given
new values by whichever keyword arguments are specified. Note that
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo=None</span></code> can be specified to create a naive datetime from an aware
datetime with no conversion of date and time data.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.6: </span>Added the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fold</span></code> argument.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.astimezone">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">astimezone</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">tz=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.astimezone" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object with new <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> attribute <em>tz</em>,
adjusting the date and time data so the result is the same UTC time as
<em>self</em>, but in <em>tz</em>’s local time.</p>
<p>If provided, <em>tz</em> must be an instance of a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> subclass, and its
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.utcoffset" title="datetime.datetime.utcoffset"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">utcoffset()</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.dst" title="datetime.datetime.dst"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst()</span></code></a> methods must not return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>. If <em>self</em>
is naive, it is presumed to represent time in the system timezone.</p>
<p>If called without arguments (or with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tz=None</span></code>) the system local
timezone is assumed for the target timezone. The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">.tzinfo</span></code> attribute of the converted
datetime instance will be set to an instance of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timezone" title="datetime.timezone"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timezone</span></code></a>
with the zone name and offset obtained from the OS.</p>
<p>If <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">self.tzinfo</span></code> is <em>tz</em>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">self.astimezone(tz)</span></code> is equal to <em>self</em>:  no
adjustment of date or time data is performed. Else the result is local
time in the timezone <em>tz</em>, representing the same UTC time as <em>self</em>:  after
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">astz</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">dt.astimezone(tz)</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">astz</span> <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">astz.utcoffset()</span></code> will have
the same date and time data as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dt</span> <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">dt.utcoffset()</span></code>.</p>
<p>If you merely want to attach a time zone object <em>tz</em> to a datetime <em>dt</em> without
adjustment of date and time data, use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dt.replace(tzinfo=tz)</span></code>. If you
merely want to remove the time zone object from an aware datetime <em>dt</em> without
conversion of date and time data, use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dt.replace(tzinfo=None)</span></code>.</p>
<p>Note that the default <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.fromutc" title="datetime.tzinfo.fromutc"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo.fromutc()</span></code></a> method can be overridden in a
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> subclass to affect the result returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.astimezone" title="datetime.datetime.astimezone"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">astimezone()</span></code></a>.
Ignoring error cases, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.astimezone" title="datetime.datetime.astimezone"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">astimezone()</span></code></a> acts like:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">astimezone</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tz</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span> <span class="ow">is</span> <span class="n">tz</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="bp">self</span>
    <span class="c1"># Convert self to UTC, and attach the new time zone object.</span>
    <span class="n">utc</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utcoffset</span><span class="p">())</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">tz</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="c1"># Convert from UTC to tz&#39;s local time.</span>
    <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">tz</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fromutc</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">utc</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span><em>tz</em> now can be omitted.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.6: </span>The <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.astimezone" title="datetime.datetime.astimezone"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">astimezone()</span></code></a> method can now be called on naive instances that
are presumed to represent system local time.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.utcoffset">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">utcoffset</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.utcoffset" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>If <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, else returns
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">self.tzinfo.utcoffset(self)</span></code>, and raises an exception if the latter doesn’t
return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> or a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object with magnitude less than one day.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.7: </span>The UTC offset is not restricted to a whole number of minutes.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.dst">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">dst</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.dst" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>If <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, else returns
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">self.tzinfo.dst(self)</span></code>, and raises an exception if the latter doesn’t return
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> or a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object with magnitude less than one day.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.7: </span>The DST offset is not restricted to a whole number of minutes.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.tzname">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">tzname</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.tzname" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>If <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, else returns
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">self.tzinfo.tzname(self)</span></code>, raises an exception if the latter doesn’t return
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> or a string object,</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.timetuple">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">timetuple</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.timetuple" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.struct_time</span></code></a> such as returned by <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#time.localtime" title="time.localtime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.localtime()</span></code></a>.</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">d.timetuple()</span></code> is equivalent to:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">struct_time</span><span class="p">((</span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">year</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">month</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">day</span><span class="p">,</span>
                  <span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">hour</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">minute</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">second</span><span class="p">,</span>
                  <span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">weekday</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="n">yday</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dst</span><span class="p">))</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>where <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">yday</span> <span class="pre">=</span> <span class="pre">d.toordinal()</span> <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">date(d.year,</span> <span class="pre">1,</span> <span class="pre">1).toordinal()</span> <span class="pre">+</span> <span class="pre">1</span></code>
is the day number within the current year starting with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1</span></code> for January
1st. The <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_isdst</span></code> flag of the result is set according to the
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.dst" title="datetime.datetime.dst"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst()</span></code></a> method: <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> or <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.dst" title="datetime.datetime.dst"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst()</span></code></a> returns
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_isdst</span></code> is set to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-1</span></code>; else if <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.dst" title="datetime.datetime.dst"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst()</span></code></a> returns a
non-zero value, <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_isdst</span></code> is set to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1</span></code>; else <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_isdst</span></code> is
set to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.utctimetuple">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">utctimetuple</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.utctimetuple" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>If <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> instance <em>d</em> is naive, this is the same as
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">d.timetuple()</span></code> except that <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_isdst</span></code> is forced to 0 regardless of what
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">d.dst()</span></code> returns. DST is never in effect for a UTC time.</p>
<p>If <em>d</em> is aware, <em>d</em> is normalized to UTC time, by subtracting
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">d.utcoffset()</span></code>, and a <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#time.struct_time" title="time.struct_time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.struct_time</span></code></a> for the
normalized time is returned. <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_isdst</span></code> is forced to 0. Note
that an <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OverflowError" title="OverflowError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OverflowError</span></code></a> may be raised if <em>d</em>.year was
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MINYEAR</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MAXYEAR</span></code> and UTC adjustment spills over a year
boundary.</p>
<div class="admonition warning">
<p class="admonition-title">Warning</p>
<p>Because naive <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code> objects are treated by many <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code> methods
as local times, it is preferred to use aware datetimes to represent times
in UTC; as a result, using <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">utcfromtimetuple</span></code> may give misleading
results. If you have a naive <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code> representing UTC, use
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.replace(tzinfo=timezone.utc)</span></code> to make it aware, at which point
you can use <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.timetuple" title="datetime.datetime.timetuple"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.timetuple()</span></code></a>.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.toordinal">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">toordinal</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.toordinal" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the proleptic Gregorian ordinal of the date. The same as
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">self.date().toordinal()</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.timestamp">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">timestamp</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.timestamp" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return POSIX timestamp corresponding to the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a>
instance. The return value is a <a class="reference internal" href="functions.html#float" title="float"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">float</span></code></a> similar to that
returned by <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#time.time" title="time.time"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.time()</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>Naive <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> instances are assumed to represent local
time and this method relies on the platform C <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mktime()</span></code>
function to perform the conversion. Since <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a>
supports wider range of values than <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">mktime()</span></code> on many
platforms, this method may raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#OverflowError" title="OverflowError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OverflowError</span></code></a> for times far
in the past or far in the future.</p>
<p>For aware <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> instances, the return value is computed
as:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dt</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1970</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">timezone</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utc</span><span class="p">))</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">total_seconds</span><span class="p">()</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.3.</span></p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.6: </span>The <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.timestamp" title="datetime.datetime.timestamp"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timestamp()</span></code></a> method uses the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.fold" title="datetime.datetime.fold"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fold</span></code></a> attribute to
disambiguate the times during a repeated interval.</p>
</div>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>There is no method to obtain the POSIX timestamp directly from a
naive <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> instance representing UTC time. If your
application uses this convention and your system timezone is not
set to UTC, you can obtain the POSIX timestamp by supplying
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo=timezone.utc</span></code>:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">timestamp</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">timezone</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utc</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">timestamp</span><span class="p">()</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>or by calculating the timestamp directly:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">timestamp</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dt</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1970</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">))</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seconds</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.weekday">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">weekday</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.weekday" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the day of the week as an integer, where Monday is 0 and Sunday is 6.
The same as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">self.date().weekday()</span></code>. See also <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.isoweekday" title="datetime.datetime.isoweekday"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">isoweekday()</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.isoweekday">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">isoweekday</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.isoweekday" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the day of the week as an integer, where Monday is 1 and Sunday is 7.
The same as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">self.date().isoweekday()</span></code>. See also <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.weekday" title="datetime.datetime.weekday"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">weekday()</span></code></a>,
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.isocalendar" title="datetime.datetime.isocalendar"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">isocalendar()</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.isocalendar">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">isocalendar</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.isocalendar" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a <a class="reference internal" href="../glossary.html#term-named-tuple"><span class="xref std std-term">named tuple</span></a> with three components: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">year</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">week</span></code>
and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">weekday</span></code>. The same as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">self.date().isocalendar()</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.isoformat">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">isoformat</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">sep='T'</em>, <em class="sig-param">timespec='auto'</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.isoformat" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a string representing the date and time in ISO 8601 format:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.ffffff</span></code>, if <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.microsecond" title="datetime.datetime.microsecond"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">microsecond</span></code></a> is not 0</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS</span></code>, if <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.microsecond" title="datetime.datetime.microsecond"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">microsecond</span></code></a> is 0</p></li>
</ul>
<p>If <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.utcoffset" title="datetime.datetime.utcoffset"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">utcoffset()</span></code></a> does not return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, a string is
appended, giving the UTC offset:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.ffffff+HH:MM[:SS[.ffffff]]</span></code>, if <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.microsecond" title="datetime.datetime.microsecond"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">microsecond</span></code></a>
is not 0</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS+HH:MM[:SS[.ffffff]]</span></code>,  if <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.microsecond" title="datetime.datetime.microsecond"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">microsecond</span></code></a> is 0</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Examples:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">timezone</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2019</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">18</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">15</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">17</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">8</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">132263</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isoformat</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="go">&#39;2019-05-18T15:17:08.132263&#39;</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2019</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">18</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">15</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">17</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">timezone</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utc</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isoformat</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="go">&#39;2019-05-18T15:17:00+00:00&#39;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The optional argument <em>sep</em> (default <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'T'</span></code>) is a one-character separator,
placed between the date and time portions of the result. For example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">datetime</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">TZ</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="sd">&quot;&quot;&quot;A time zone with an arbitrary, constant -06:39 offset.&quot;&quot;&quot;</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">utcoffset</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hours</span><span class="o">=-</span><span class="mi">6</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">minutes</span><span class="o">=-</span><span class="mi">39</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">...</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2002</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">25</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">TZ</span><span class="p">())</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isoformat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39; &#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">&#39;2002-12-25 00:00:00-06:39&#39;</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2009</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">11</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">27</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">microsecond</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">100</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">TZ</span><span class="p">())</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isoformat</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="go">&#39;2009-11-27T00:00:00.000100-06:39&#39;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The optional argument <em>timespec</em> specifies the number of additional
components of the time to include (the default is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'auto'</span></code>).
It can be one of the following:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'auto'</span></code>: Same as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'seconds'</span></code> if <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.microsecond" title="datetime.datetime.microsecond"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">microsecond</span></code></a> is 0,
same as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'microseconds'</span></code> otherwise.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'hours'</span></code>: Include the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.hour" title="datetime.datetime.hour"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hour</span></code></a> in the two-digit <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HH</span></code> format.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'minutes'</span></code>: Include <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.hour" title="datetime.datetime.hour"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hour</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.minute" title="datetime.datetime.minute"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">minute</span></code></a> in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HH:MM</span></code> format.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'seconds'</span></code>: Include <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.hour" title="datetime.datetime.hour"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hour</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.minute" title="datetime.datetime.minute"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">minute</span></code></a>, and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.second" title="datetime.datetime.second"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">second</span></code></a>
in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HH:MM:SS</span></code> format.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'milliseconds'</span></code>: Include full time, but truncate fractional second
part to milliseconds. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HH:MM:SS.sss</span></code> format.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'microseconds'</span></code>: Include full time in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HH:MM:SS.ffffff</span></code> format.</p></li>
</ul>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>Excluded time components are truncated, not rounded.</p>
</div>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> will be raised on an invalid <em>timespec</em> argument:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">datetime</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">now</span><span class="p">()</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isoformat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">timespec</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;minutes&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>   
<span class="go">&#39;2002-12-25T00:00&#39;</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dt</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2015</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">30</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">59</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isoformat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">timespec</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;microseconds&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">&#39;2015-01-01T12:30:59.000000&#39;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.6: </span>Added the <em>timespec</em> argument.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.__str__">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">__str__</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.__str__" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>For a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> instance <em>d</em>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str(d)</span></code> is equivalent to
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">d.isoformat('</span> <span class="pre">')</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.ctime">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">ctime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.ctime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a string representing the date and time:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">datetime</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2002</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">20</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">30</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">40</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ctime</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="go">&#39;Wed Dec  4 20:30:40 2002&#39;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The output string will <em>not</em> include time zone information, regardless
of whether the input is aware or naive.</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">d.ctime()</span></code> is equivalent to:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">ctime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">mktime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">d</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">timetuple</span><span class="p">()))</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>on platforms where the native C <code class="xref c c-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ctime()</span></code> function
(which <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#time.ctime" title="time.ctime"><code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.ctime()</span></code></a> invokes, but which
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.ctime" title="datetime.datetime.ctime"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.ctime()</span></code></a> does not invoke) conforms to the C standard.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.strftime">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">strftime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">format</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.strftime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a string representing the date and time, controlled by an explicit format
string. For a complete list of formatting directives, see
<a class="reference internal" href="#strftime-strptime-behavior"><span class="std std-ref">strftime() and strptime() Behavior</span></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.datetime.__format__">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">__format__</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">format</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.datetime.__format__" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Same as <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.strftime" title="datetime.datetime.strftime"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.strftime()</span></code></a>. This makes it possible to specify a format
string for a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object in <a class="reference internal" href="../reference/lexical_analysis.html#f-strings"><span class="std std-ref">formatted string
literals</span></a> and when using <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str.format" title="str.format"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str.format()</span></code></a>. For a
complete list of formatting directives, see
<a class="reference internal" href="#strftime-strptime-behavior"><span class="std std-ref">strftime() and strptime() Behavior</span></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<section id="examples-of-usage-datetime">
<h3>Examples of Usage: <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a><a class="headerlink" href="#examples-of-usage-datetime" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Examples of working with <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> objects:</p>
<div class="highlight-pycon3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">date</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">time</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">timezone</span>

<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="c1"># Using datetime.combine()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">d</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">date</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2005</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">7</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">14</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">t</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">time</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">30</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">combine</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">d</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">t</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">datetime.datetime(2005, 7, 14, 12, 30)</span>

<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="c1"># Using datetime.now()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">now</span><span class="p">()</span>   
<span class="go">datetime.datetime(2007, 12, 6, 16, 29, 43, 79043)   # GMT +1</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">now</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">timezone</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utc</span><span class="p">)</span>   
<span class="go">datetime.datetime(2007, 12, 6, 15, 29, 43, 79060, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)</span>

<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="c1"># Using datetime.strptime()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dt</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strptime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;21/11/06 16:30&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s2">/%m/%y %H:%M&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dt</span>
<span class="go">datetime.datetime(2006, 11, 21, 16, 30)</span>

<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="c1"># Using datetime.timetuple() to get tuple of all attributes</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">tt</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">timetuple</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">it</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">tt</span><span class="p">:</span>   
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">it</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">...</span>
<span class="go">2006    # year</span>
<span class="go">11      # month</span>
<span class="go">21      # day</span>
<span class="go">16      # hour</span>
<span class="go">30      # minute</span>
<span class="go">0       # second</span>
<span class="go">1       # weekday (0 = Monday)</span>
<span class="go">325     # number of days since 1st January</span>
<span class="go">-1      # dst - method tzinfo.dst() returned None</span>

<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="c1"># Date in ISO format</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">ic</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isocalendar</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">it</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="n">ic</span><span class="p">:</span>   
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">it</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">...</span>
<span class="go">2006    # ISO year</span>
<span class="go">47      # ISO week</span>
<span class="go">2       # ISO weekday</span>

<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="c1"># Formatting a datetime</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strftime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;%A, </span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s2">. %B %Y %I:%M%p&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">&#39;Tuesday, 21. November 2006 04:30PM&#39;</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="s1">&#39;The </span><span class="si">{1}</span><span class="s1"> is {0:</span><span class="si">%d</span><span class="s1">}, the </span><span class="si">{2}</span><span class="s1"> is {0:%B}, the </span><span class="si">{3}</span><span class="s1"> is {0:%I:%M%p}.&#39;</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;day&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;month&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;time&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">&#39;The day is 21, the month is November, the time is 04:30PM.&#39;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The example below defines a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> subclass capturing time zone
information for Kabul, Afghanistan, which used +4 UTC until 1945
and then +4:30 UTC thereafter:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">timezone</span>

<span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">KabulTz</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="c1"># Kabul used +4 until 1945, when they moved to +4:30</span>
    <span class="n">UTC_MOVE_DATE</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1944</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">31</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">20</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">timezone</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utc</span><span class="p">)</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">utcoffset</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">year</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="mi">1945</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hours</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="k">elif</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1945</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">&lt;=</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">timetuple</span><span class="p">()[:</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">]</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1945</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">30</span><span class="p">):</span>
            <span class="c1"># An ambiguous (&quot;imaginary&quot;) half-hour range representing</span>
            <span class="c1"># a &#39;fold&#39; in time due to the shift from +4 to +4:30.</span>
            <span class="c1"># If dt falls in the imaginary range, use fold to decide how</span>
            <span class="c1"># to resolve. See PEP495.</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hours</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">minutes</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">30</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fold</span> <span class="k">else</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">))</span>
        <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hours</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">minutes</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">30</span><span class="p">)</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">fromutc</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="c1"># Follow same validations as in datetime.tzinfo</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="nb">isinstance</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">):</span>
            <span class="k">raise</span> <span class="ne">TypeError</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;fromutc() requires a datetime argument&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span> <span class="ow">is</span> <span class="ow">not</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="k">raise</span> <span class="ne">ValueError</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;dt.tzinfo is not self&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>

        <span class="c1"># A custom implementation is required for fromutc as</span>
        <span class="c1"># the input to this function is a datetime with utc values</span>
        <span class="c1"># but with a tzinfo set to self.</span>
        <span class="c1"># See datetime.astimezone or fromtimestamp.</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">timezone</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utc</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">&gt;=</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">UTC_MOVE_DATE</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">dt</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hours</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">minutes</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">30</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">dt</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hours</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">)</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">dst</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="c1"># Kabul does not observe daylight saving time.</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">tzname</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">dt</span> <span class="o">&gt;=</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">UTC_MOVE_DATE</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="s2">&quot;+04:30&quot;</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="s2">&quot;+04&quot;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Usage of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">KabulTz</span></code> from above:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">tz1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">KabulTz</span><span class="p">()</span>

<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="c1"># Datetime before the change</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dt1</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1900</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">11</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">21</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">16</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">30</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">tz1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dt1</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utcoffset</span><span class="p">())</span>
<span class="go">4:00:00</span>

<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="c1"># Datetime after the change</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dt2</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2006</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">6</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">14</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">13</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">tz1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dt2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utcoffset</span><span class="p">())</span>
<span class="go">4:30:00</span>

<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="c1"># Convert datetime to another time zone</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dt3</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">dt2</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">astimezone</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">timezone</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utc</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dt3</span>
<span class="go">datetime.datetime(2006, 6, 14, 8, 30, tzinfo=datetime.timezone.utc)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dt2</span>
<span class="go">datetime.datetime(2006, 6, 14, 13, 0, tzinfo=KabulTz())</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dt2</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">dt3</span>
<span class="go">True</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
</section>
<section id="time-objects">
<span id="datetime-time"></span><h2><a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#time-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>A <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#module-time" title="time: Time access and conversions."><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> object represents a (local) time of day, independent of any particular
day, and subject to adjustment via a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> object.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="datetime.time">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">time</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">hour=0</em>, <em class="sig-param">minute=0</em>, <em class="sig-param">second=0</em>, <em class="sig-param">microsecond=0</em>, <em class="sig-param">tzinfo=None</em>, <em class="sig-param">*</em>, <em class="sig-param">fold=0</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>All arguments are optional. <em>tzinfo</em> may be <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, or an instance of a
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> subclass. The remaining arguments must be integers in the
following ranges:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">hour</span> <span class="pre">&lt;</span> <span class="pre">24</span></code>,</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">minute</span> <span class="pre">&lt;</span> <span class="pre">60</span></code>,</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">second</span> <span class="pre">&lt;</span> <span class="pre">60</span></code>,</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span> <span class="pre">&lt;=</span> <span class="pre">microsecond</span> <span class="pre">&lt;</span> <span class="pre">1000000</span></code>,</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fold</span> <span class="pre">in</span> <span class="pre">[0,</span> <span class="pre">1]</span></code>.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>If an argument outside those ranges is given, <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> is raised. All
default to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span></code> except <em>tzinfo</em>, which defaults to <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#None" title="None"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<p>Class attributes:</p>
<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.time.min">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">min</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.min" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The earliest representable <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time(0,</span> <span class="pre">0,</span> <span class="pre">0,</span> <span class="pre">0)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.time.max">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">max</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.max" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The latest representable <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time(23,</span> <span class="pre">59,</span> <span class="pre">59,</span> <span class="pre">999999)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.time.resolution">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">resolution</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.resolution" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The smallest possible difference between non-equal <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> objects,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta(microseconds=1)</span></code>, although note that arithmetic on
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> objects is not supported.</p>
</dd></dl>

<p>Instance attributes (read-only):</p>
<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.time.hour">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">hour</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.hour" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>In <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">range(24)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.time.minute">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">minute</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.minute" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>In <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">range(60)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.time.second">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">second</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.second" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>In <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">range(60)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.time.microsecond">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">microsecond</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.microsecond" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>In <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">range(1000000)</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.time.tzinfo">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">tzinfo</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.tzinfo" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The object passed as the tzinfo argument to the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> constructor, or
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> if none was passed.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.time.fold">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">fold</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.fold" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>In <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">[0,</span> <span class="pre">1]</span></code>. Used to disambiguate wall times during a repeated interval. (A
repeated interval occurs when clocks are rolled back at the end of daylight saving
time or when the UTC offset for the current zone is decreased for political reasons.)
The value 0 (1) represents the earlier (later) of the two moments with the same wall
time representation.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.6.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<p><a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> objects support comparison of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> to <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a>,
where <em>a</em> is considered less
than <em>b</em> when <em>a</em> precedes <em>b</em> in time. If one comparand is naive and the other
is aware, <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#TypeError" title="TypeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a> is raised if an order comparison is attempted. For equality
comparisons, naive instances are never equal to aware instances.</p>
<p>If both comparands are aware, and have
the same <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.tzinfo" title="datetime.time.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> attribute, the common <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.tzinfo" title="datetime.time.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> attribute is
ignored and the base times are compared. If both comparands are aware and
have different <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.tzinfo" title="datetime.time.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> attributes, the comparands are first adjusted by
subtracting their UTC offsets (obtained from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">self.utcoffset()</span></code>). In order
to stop mixed-type comparisons from falling back to the default comparison by
object address, when a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> object is compared to an object of a
different type, <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#TypeError" title="TypeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a> is raised unless the comparison is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">==</span></code> or
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">!=</span></code>. The latter cases return <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#False" title="False"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">False</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="constants.html#True" title="True"><code class="xref py py-const docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">True</span></code></a>, respectively.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span>Equality comparisons between aware and naive <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> instances
don’t raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#TypeError" title="TypeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">TypeError</span></code></a>.</p>
</div>
<p>In Boolean contexts, a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> object is always considered to be true.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.5: </span>Before Python 3.5, a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> object was considered to be false if it
represented midnight in UTC. This behavior was considered obscure and
error-prone and has been removed in Python 3.5. See <a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.python.org/issue13936">bpo-13936</a> for full
details.</p>
</div>
<p>Other constructor:</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.time.fromisoformat">
<em class="property">classmethod </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">fromisoformat</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">time_string</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.fromisoformat" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> corresponding to a <em>time_string</em> in one of the
formats emitted by <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.isoformat" title="datetime.time.isoformat"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.isoformat()</span></code></a>. Specifically, this function supports
strings in the format:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>HH[:MM[:SS[.fff[fff]]]][+HH:MM[:SS[.ffffff]]]
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="admonition caution">
<p class="admonition-title">Caution</p>
<p>This does <em>not</em> support parsing arbitrary ISO 8601 strings. It is only
intended as the inverse operation of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.isoformat" title="datetime.time.isoformat"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.isoformat()</span></code></a>.</p>
</div>
<p>Examples:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">time</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fromisoformat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;04:23:01&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">datetime.time(4, 23, 1)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fromisoformat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;04:23:01.000384&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">datetime.time(4, 23, 1, 384)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fromisoformat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s1">&#39;04:23:01+04:00&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">datetime.time(4, 23, 1, tzinfo=datetime.timezone(datetime.timedelta(seconds=14400)))</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.7.</span></p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<p>Instance methods:</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.time.replace">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">replace</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">hour=self.hour</em>, <em class="sig-param">minute=self.minute</em>, <em class="sig-param">second=self.second</em>, <em class="sig-param">microsecond=self.microsecond</em>, <em class="sig-param">tzinfo=self.tzinfo</em>, <em class="sig-param">*</em>, <em class="sig-param">fold=0</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.replace" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> with the same value, except for those attributes given
new values by whichever keyword arguments are specified. Note that
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo=None</span></code> can be specified to create a naive <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> from an
aware <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a>, without conversion of the time data.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.6: </span>Added the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fold</span></code> argument.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.time.isoformat">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">isoformat</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">timespec='auto'</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.isoformat" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a string representing the time in ISO 8601 format, one of:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HH:MM:SS.ffffff</span></code>, if <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.microsecond" title="datetime.time.microsecond"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">microsecond</span></code></a> is not 0</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HH:MM:SS</span></code>, if <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.microsecond" title="datetime.time.microsecond"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">microsecond</span></code></a> is 0</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HH:MM:SS.ffffff+HH:MM[:SS[.ffffff]]</span></code>, if <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.utcoffset" title="datetime.time.utcoffset"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">utcoffset()</span></code></a> does not return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HH:MM:SS+HH:MM[:SS[.ffffff]]</span></code>, if <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.microsecond" title="datetime.time.microsecond"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">microsecond</span></code></a> is 0 and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.utcoffset" title="datetime.time.utcoffset"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">utcoffset()</span></code></a> does not return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code></p></li>
</ul>
<p>The optional argument <em>timespec</em> specifies the number of additional
components of the time to include (the default is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'auto'</span></code>).
It can be one of the following:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'auto'</span></code>: Same as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'seconds'</span></code> if <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.microsecond" title="datetime.time.microsecond"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">microsecond</span></code></a> is 0,
same as <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'microseconds'</span></code> otherwise.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'hours'</span></code>: Include the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.hour" title="datetime.time.hour"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hour</span></code></a> in the two-digit <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HH</span></code> format.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'minutes'</span></code>: Include <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.hour" title="datetime.time.hour"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hour</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.minute" title="datetime.time.minute"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">minute</span></code></a> in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HH:MM</span></code> format.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'seconds'</span></code>: Include <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.hour" title="datetime.time.hour"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hour</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.minute" title="datetime.time.minute"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">minute</span></code></a>, and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.second" title="datetime.time.second"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">second</span></code></a>
in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HH:MM:SS</span></code> format.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'milliseconds'</span></code>: Include full time, but truncate fractional second
part to milliseconds. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HH:MM:SS.sss</span></code> format.</p></li>
<li><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'microseconds'</span></code>: Include full time in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HH:MM:SS.ffffff</span></code> format.</p></li>
</ul>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>Excluded time components are truncated, not rounded.</p>
</div>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> will be raised on an invalid <em>timespec</em> argument.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">time</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">time</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hour</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">minute</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">34</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">second</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">56</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">microsecond</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">123456</span><span class="p">)</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isoformat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">timespec</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;minutes&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">&#39;12:34&#39;</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dt</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">time</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hour</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">minute</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">34</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">second</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">56</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">microsecond</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isoformat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">timespec</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;microseconds&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">&#39;12:34:56.000000&#39;</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isoformat</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">timespec</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;auto&#39;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">&#39;12:34:56&#39;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.6: </span>Added the <em>timespec</em> argument.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.time.__str__">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">__str__</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.__str__" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>For a time <em>t</em>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str(t)</span></code> is equivalent to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">t.isoformat()</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.time.strftime">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">strftime</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">format</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.strftime" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return a string representing the time, controlled by an explicit format
string. For a complete list of formatting directives, see
<a class="reference internal" href="#strftime-strptime-behavior"><span class="std std-ref">strftime() and strptime() Behavior</span></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.time.__format__">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">__format__</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">format</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.__format__" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Same as <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.strftime" title="datetime.time.strftime"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.strftime()</span></code></a>. This makes it possible to specify a format string
for a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> object in <a class="reference internal" href="../reference/lexical_analysis.html#f-strings"><span class="std std-ref">formatted string
literals</span></a> and when using <a class="reference internal" href="stdtypes.html#str.format" title="str.format"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">str.format()</span></code></a>. For a
complete list of formatting directives, see
<a class="reference internal" href="#strftime-strptime-behavior"><span class="std std-ref">strftime() and strptime() Behavior</span></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.time.utcoffset">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">utcoffset</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.utcoffset" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>If <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.tzinfo" title="datetime.time.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, else returns
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">self.tzinfo.utcoffset(None)</span></code>, and raises an exception if the latter doesn’t
return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> or a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object with magnitude less than one day.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.7: </span>The UTC offset is not restricted to a whole number of minutes.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.time.dst">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">dst</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.dst" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>If <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.tzinfo" title="datetime.time.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, else returns
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">self.tzinfo.dst(None)</span></code>, and raises an exception if the latter doesn’t return
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, or a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object with magnitude less than one day.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.7: </span>The DST offset is not restricted to a whole number of minutes.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.time.tzname">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">time.</code><code class="sig-name descname">tzname</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.time.tzname" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>If <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time.tzinfo" title="datetime.time.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, else returns
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">self.tzinfo.tzname(None)</span></code>, or raises an exception if the latter doesn’t
return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> or a string object.</p>
</dd></dl>

<section id="examples-of-usage-time">
<h3>Examples of Usage: <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a><a class="headerlink" href="#examples-of-usage-time" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Examples of working with a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> object:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">time</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">TZ1</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">utcoffset</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hours</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">dst</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">tzname</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="s2">&quot;+01:00&quot;</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="k">def</span>  <span class="fm">__repr__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="sa">f</span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="si">{</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="vm">__class__</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="vm">__name__</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">()&quot;</span>
<span class="gp">...</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">t</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">time</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">12</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">30</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">TZ1</span><span class="p">())</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">t</span>
<span class="go">datetime.time(12, 10, 30, tzinfo=TZ1())</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">t</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">isoformat</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="go">&#39;12:10:30+01:00&#39;</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">t</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dst</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="go">datetime.timedelta(0)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">t</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzname</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="go">&#39;+01:00&#39;</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">t</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strftime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;%H:%M:%S %Z&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">&#39;12:10:30 +01:00&#39;</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="s1">&#39;The </span><span class="si">{}</span><span class="s1"> is {:%H:%M}.&#39;</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">format</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="s2">&quot;time&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">t</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="go">&#39;The time is 12:10.&#39;</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</section>
</section>
<section id="tzinfo-objects">
<span id="datetime-tzinfo"></span><h2><a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#tzinfo-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="datetime.tzinfo">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">tzinfo</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>This is an abstract base class, meaning that this class should not be
instantiated directly.  Define a subclass of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> to capture
information about a particular time zone.</p>
<p>An instance of (a concrete subclass of) <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> can be passed to the
constructors for <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> objects. The latter objects
view their attributes as being in local time, and the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> object
supports methods revealing offset of local time from UTC, the name of the time
zone, and DST offset, all relative to a date or time object passed to them.</p>
<p>You need to derive a concrete subclass, and (at least)
supply implementations of the standard <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> methods needed by the
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> methods you use. The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-datetime" title="datetime: Basic date and time types."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> module provides
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timezone" title="datetime.timezone"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timezone</span></code></a>, a simple concrete subclass of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> which can
represent timezones with fixed offset from UTC such as UTC itself or North
American EST and EDT.</p>
<p>Special requirement for pickling:  A <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> subclass must have an
<a class="reference internal" href="../reference/datamodel.html#object.__init__" title="object.__init__"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">__init__()</span></code></a> method that can be called with no arguments, otherwise it can be
pickled but possibly not unpickled again. This is a technical requirement that
may be relaxed in the future.</p>
<p>A concrete subclass of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> may need to implement the following
methods. Exactly which methods are needed depends on the uses made of aware
<a class="reference internal" href="#module-datetime" title="datetime: Basic date and time types."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> objects. If in doubt, simply implement all of them.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.tzinfo.utcoffset">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">tzinfo.</code><code class="sig-name descname">utcoffset</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">dt</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.tzinfo.utcoffset" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return offset of local time from UTC, as a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object that is
positive east of UTC. If local time is west of UTC, this should be negative.</p>
<p>This represents the <em>total</em> offset from UTC; for example, if a
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> object represents both time zone and DST adjustments,
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.utcoffset" title="datetime.tzinfo.utcoffset"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">utcoffset()</span></code></a> should return their sum. If the UTC offset isn’t known,
return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>. Else the value returned must be a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object
strictly between <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-timedelta(hours=24)</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta(hours=24)</span></code>
(the magnitude of the offset must be less than one day). Most implementations
of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.utcoffset" title="datetime.tzinfo.utcoffset"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">utcoffset()</span></code></a> will probably look like one of these two:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">CONSTANT</span>                 <span class="c1"># fixed-offset class</span>
<span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">CONSTANT</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dst</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">)</span>  <span class="c1"># daylight-aware class</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>If <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.utcoffset" title="datetime.tzinfo.utcoffset"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">utcoffset()</span></code></a> does not return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.dst" title="datetime.tzinfo.dst"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst()</span></code></a> should not return
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> either.</p>
<p>The default implementation of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.utcoffset" title="datetime.tzinfo.utcoffset"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">utcoffset()</span></code></a> raises
<a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#NotImplementedError" title="NotImplementedError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NotImplementedError</span></code></a>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.7: </span>The UTC offset is not restricted to a whole number of minutes.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.tzinfo.dst">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">tzinfo.</code><code class="sig-name descname">dst</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">dt</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.tzinfo.dst" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the daylight saving time (DST) adjustment, as a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a>
object or
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> if DST information isn’t known.</p>
<p>Return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta(0)</span></code> if DST is not in effect.
If DST is in effect, return the offset as a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a> object
(see <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.utcoffset" title="datetime.tzinfo.utcoffset"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">utcoffset()</span></code></a> for details). Note that DST offset, if applicable, has
already been added to the UTC offset returned by <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.utcoffset" title="datetime.tzinfo.utcoffset"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">utcoffset()</span></code></a>, so there’s
no need to consult <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.dst" title="datetime.tzinfo.dst"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst()</span></code></a> unless you’re interested in obtaining DST info
separately. For example, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.timetuple" title="datetime.datetime.timetuple"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.timetuple()</span></code></a> calls its <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a>
attribute’s <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.dst" title="datetime.tzinfo.dst"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst()</span></code></a> method to determine how the <code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tm_isdst</span></code> flag
should be set, and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.fromutc" title="datetime.tzinfo.fromutc"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo.fromutc()</span></code></a> calls <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.dst" title="datetime.tzinfo.dst"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst()</span></code></a> to account for
DST changes when crossing time zones.</p>
<p>An instance <em>tz</em> of a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> subclass that models both standard and
daylight times must be consistent in this sense:</p>
<p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tz.utcoffset(dt)</span> <span class="pre">-</span> <span class="pre">tz.dst(dt)</span></code></p>
<p>must return the same result for every <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> <em>dt</em> with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dt.tzinfo</span> <span class="pre">==</span>
<span class="pre">tz</span></code>  For sane <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> subclasses, this expression yields the time
zone’s “standard offset”, which should not depend on the date or the time, but
only on geographic location. The implementation of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.astimezone" title="datetime.datetime.astimezone"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.astimezone()</span></code></a>
relies on this, but cannot detect violations; it’s the programmer’s
responsibility to ensure it. If a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> subclass cannot guarantee
this, it may be able to override the default implementation of
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.fromutc" title="datetime.tzinfo.fromutc"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo.fromutc()</span></code></a> to work correctly with <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">astimezone()</span></code> regardless.</p>
<p>Most implementations of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.dst" title="datetime.tzinfo.dst"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst()</span></code></a> will probably look like one of these two:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">dst</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="c1"># a fixed-offset class:  doesn&#39;t account for DST</span>
    <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>or:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">dst</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="c1"># Code to set dston and dstoff to the time zone&#39;s DST</span>
    <span class="c1"># transition times based on the input dt.year, and expressed</span>
    <span class="c1"># in standard local time.</span>

    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">dston</span> <span class="o">&lt;=</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">None</span><span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="n">dstoff</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hours</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The default implementation of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.dst" title="datetime.tzinfo.dst"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dst()</span></code></a> raises <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#NotImplementedError" title="NotImplementedError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NotImplementedError</span></code></a>.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.7: </span>The DST offset is not restricted to a whole number of minutes.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.tzinfo.tzname">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">tzinfo.</code><code class="sig-name descname">tzname</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">dt</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.tzinfo.tzname" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the time zone name corresponding to the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object <em>dt</em>, as
a string. Nothing about string names is defined by the <a class="reference internal" href="#module-datetime" title="datetime: Basic date and time types."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> module,
and there’s no requirement that it mean anything in particular. For example,
“GMT”, “UTC”, “-500”, “-5:00”, “EDT”, “US/Eastern”, “America/New York” are all
valid replies. Return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> if a string name isn’t known. Note that this is
a method rather than a fixed string primarily because some <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a>
subclasses will wish to return different names depending on the specific value
of <em>dt</em> passed, especially if the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> class is accounting for
daylight time.</p>
<p>The default implementation of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.tzname" title="datetime.tzinfo.tzname"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzname()</span></code></a> raises <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#NotImplementedError" title="NotImplementedError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NotImplementedError</span></code></a>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<p>These methods are called by a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> or <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> object, in
response to their methods of the same names. A <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object passes
itself as the argument, and a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> object passes <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> as the
argument. A <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> subclass’s methods should therefore be prepared to
accept a <em>dt</em> argument of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>, or of class <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>When <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> is passed, it’s up to the class designer to decide the best
response. For example, returning <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code> is appropriate if the class wishes to
say that time objects don’t participate in the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> protocols. It
may be more useful for <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">utcoffset(None)</span></code> to return the standard UTC offset, as
there is no other convention for discovering the standard offset.</p>
<p>When a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object is passed in response to a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a>
method, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dt.tzinfo</span></code> is the same object as <em>self</em>. <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> methods can
rely on this, unless user code calls <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> methods directly. The
intent is that the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> methods interpret <em>dt</em> as being in local
time, and not need worry about objects in other timezones.</p>
<p>There is one more <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> method that a subclass may wish to override:</p>
<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.tzinfo.fromutc">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">tzinfo.</code><code class="sig-name descname">fromutc</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">dt</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.tzinfo.fromutc" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>This is called from the default <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.astimezone" title="datetime.datetime.astimezone"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.astimezone()</span></code></a>
implementation. When called from that, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dt.tzinfo</span></code> is <em>self</em>, and <em>dt</em>’s
date and time data are to be viewed as expressing a UTC time. The purpose
of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.fromutc" title="datetime.tzinfo.fromutc"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fromutc()</span></code></a> is to adjust the date and time data, returning an
equivalent datetime in <em>self</em>’s local time.</p>
<p>Most <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> subclasses should be able to inherit the default
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.fromutc" title="datetime.tzinfo.fromutc"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fromutc()</span></code></a> implementation without problems. It’s strong enough to handle
fixed-offset time zones, and time zones accounting for both standard and
daylight time, and the latter even if the DST transition times differ in
different years. An example of a time zone the default <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.fromutc" title="datetime.tzinfo.fromutc"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fromutc()</span></code></a>
implementation may not handle correctly in all cases is one where the standard
offset (from UTC) depends on the specific date and time passed, which can happen
for political reasons. The default implementations of <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">astimezone()</span></code> and
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.fromutc" title="datetime.tzinfo.fromutc"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fromutc()</span></code></a> may not produce the result you want if the result is one of the
hours straddling the moment the standard offset changes.</p>
<p>Skipping code for error cases, the default <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo.fromutc" title="datetime.tzinfo.fromutc"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fromutc()</span></code></a> implementation acts
like:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">fromutc</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="c1"># raise ValueError error if dt.tzinfo is not self</span>
    <span class="n">dtoff</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utcoffset</span><span class="p">()</span>
    <span class="n">dtdst</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dst</span><span class="p">()</span>
    <span class="c1"># raise ValueError if dtoff is None or dtdst is None</span>
    <span class="n">delta</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">dtoff</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">dtdst</span>  <span class="c1"># this is self&#39;s standard offset</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">delta</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="n">dt</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="n">delta</span>   <span class="c1"># convert to standard local time</span>
        <span class="n">dtdst</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dst</span><span class="p">()</span>
        <span class="c1"># raise ValueError if dtdst is None</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">dtdst</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">dt</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">dtdst</span>
    <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">dt</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<p>In the following <a class="reference download internal" download="" href="../_downloads/6b45dc135219d1404be49d606589a11d/tzinfo_examples.py"><code class="xref download docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo_examples.py</span></code></a> file there are some examples of
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> classes:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">datetime</span>

<span class="n">ZERO</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">HOUR</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hours</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">SECOND</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seconds</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>

<span class="c1"># A class capturing the platform&#39;s idea of local time.</span>
<span class="c1"># (May result in wrong values on historical times in</span>
<span class="c1">#  timezones where UTC offset and/or the DST rules had</span>
<span class="c1">#  changed in the past.)</span>
<span class="kn">import</span> <span class="nn">time</span> <span class="k">as</span> <span class="nn">_time</span>

<span class="n">STDOFFSET</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seconds</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="n">_time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">timezone</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">_time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">daylight</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="n">DSTOFFSET</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">seconds</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="o">-</span><span class="n">_time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">altzone</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
    <span class="n">DSTOFFSET</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">STDOFFSET</span>

<span class="n">DSTDIFF</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DSTOFFSET</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">STDOFFSET</span>

<span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">LocalTimezone</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="p">):</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">fromutc</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">assert</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span> <span class="ow">is</span> <span class="bp">self</span>
        <span class="n">stamp</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dt</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1970</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">))</span> <span class="o">//</span> <span class="n">SECOND</span>
        <span class="n">args</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">_time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">localtime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">stamp</span><span class="p">)[:</span><span class="mi">6</span><span class="p">]</span>
        <span class="n">dst_diff</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DSTDIFF</span> <span class="o">//</span> <span class="n">SECOND</span>
        <span class="c1"># Detect fold</span>
        <span class="n">fold</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">args</span> <span class="o">==</span> <span class="n">_time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">localtime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">stamp</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">dst_diff</span><span class="p">))</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">args</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">microsecond</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">microsecond</span><span class="p">,</span>
                        <span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">fold</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">fold</span><span class="p">)</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">utcoffset</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">_isdst</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">DSTOFFSET</span>
        <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">STDOFFSET</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">dst</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">_isdst</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">DSTDIFF</span>
        <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">ZERO</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">tzname</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">_time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzname</span><span class="p">[</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">_isdst</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">)]</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">_isdst</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="n">tt</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">year</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">month</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">day</span><span class="p">,</span>
              <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">hour</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">minute</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">second</span><span class="p">,</span>
              <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">weekday</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="n">stamp</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">_time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">mktime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tt</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="n">tt</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">_time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">localtime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">stamp</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">tt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tm_isdst</span> <span class="o">&gt;</span> <span class="mi">0</span>

<span class="n">Local</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">LocalTimezone</span><span class="p">()</span>


<span class="c1"># A complete implementation of current DST rules for major US time zones.</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">first_sunday_on_or_after</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="n">days_to_go</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="mi">6</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">weekday</span><span class="p">()</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">days_to_go</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="n">dt</span> <span class="o">+=</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">days_to_go</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">dt</span>


<span class="c1"># US DST Rules</span>
<span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="c1"># This is a simplified (i.e., wrong for a few cases) set of rules for US</span>
<span class="c1"># DST start and end times. For a complete and up-to-date set of DST rules</span>
<span class="c1"># and timezone definitions, visit the Olson Database (or try pytz):</span>
<span class="c1"># http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm</span>
<span class="c1"># http://sourceforge.net/projects/pytz/ (might not be up-to-date)</span>
<span class="c1">#</span>
<span class="c1"># In the US, since 2007, DST starts at 2am (standard time) on the second</span>
<span class="c1"># Sunday in March, which is the first Sunday on or after Mar 8.</span>
<span class="n">DSTSTART_2007</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">8</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># and ends at 2am (DST time) on the first Sunday of Nov.</span>
<span class="n">DSTEND_2007</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">11</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># From 1987 to 2006, DST used to start at 2am (standard time) on the first</span>
<span class="c1"># Sunday in April and to end at 2am (DST time) on the last</span>
<span class="c1"># Sunday of October, which is the first Sunday on or after Oct 25.</span>
<span class="n">DSTSTART_1987_2006</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">DSTEND_1987_2006</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">10</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">25</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="c1"># From 1967 to 1986, DST used to start at 2am (standard time) on the last</span>
<span class="c1"># Sunday in April (the one on or after April 24) and to end at 2am (DST time)</span>
<span class="c1"># on the last Sunday of October, which is the first Sunday</span>
<span class="c1"># on or after Oct 25.</span>
<span class="n">DSTSTART_1967_1986</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">24</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">DSTEND_1967_1986</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DSTEND_1987_2006</span>

<span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">us_dst_range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">year</span><span class="p">):</span>
    <span class="c1"># Find start and end times for US DST. For years before 1967, return</span>
    <span class="c1"># start = end for no DST.</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="mi">2006</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="n">year</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="n">dststart</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dstend</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DSTSTART_2007</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">DSTEND_2007</span>
    <span class="k">elif</span> <span class="mi">1986</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="n">year</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="mi">2007</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="n">dststart</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dstend</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DSTSTART_1987_2006</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">DSTEND_1987_2006</span>
    <span class="k">elif</span> <span class="mi">1966</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="n">year</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="mi">1987</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="n">dststart</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dstend</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">DSTSTART_1967_1986</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">DSTEND_1967_1986</span>
    <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="p">(</span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">year</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">),</span> <span class="p">)</span> <span class="o">*</span> <span class="mi">2</span>

    <span class="n">start</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">first_sunday_on_or_after</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dststart</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">year</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">year</span><span class="p">))</span>
    <span class="n">end</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">first_sunday_on_or_after</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dstend</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">year</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">year</span><span class="p">))</span>
    <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">start</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">end</span>


<span class="k">class</span> <span class="nc">USTimeZone</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="p">):</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="fm">__init__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">hours</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">reprname</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">stdname</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dstname</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">stdoffset</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">timedelta</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">hours</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">hours</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">reprname</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">reprname</span>
        <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">stdname</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">stdname</span>
        <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dstname</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">dstname</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="fm">__repr__</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">reprname</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">tzname</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dst</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dstname</span>
        <span class="k">else</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">stdname</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">utcoffset</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">stdoffset</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">dst</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">)</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">dst</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">dt</span> <span class="ow">is</span> <span class="kc">None</span> <span class="ow">or</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span> <span class="ow">is</span> <span class="kc">None</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="c1"># An exception may be sensible here, in one or both cases.</span>
            <span class="c1"># It depends on how you want to treat them.  The default</span>
            <span class="c1"># fromutc() implementation (called by the default astimezone()</span>
            <span class="c1"># implementation) passes a datetime with dt.tzinfo is self.</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">ZERO</span>
        <span class="k">assert</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span> <span class="ow">is</span> <span class="bp">self</span>
        <span class="n">start</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">end</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">us_dst_range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">year</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="c1"># Can&#39;t compare naive to aware objects, so strip the timezone from</span>
        <span class="c1"># dt first.</span>
        <span class="n">dt</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kc">None</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">start</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">HOUR</span> <span class="o">&lt;=</span> <span class="n">dt</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="n">end</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">HOUR</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="c1"># DST is in effect.</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">HOUR</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">end</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">HOUR</span> <span class="o">&lt;=</span> <span class="n">dt</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="n">end</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="c1"># Fold (an ambiguous hour): use dt.fold to disambiguate.</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">ZERO</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fold</span> <span class="k">else</span> <span class="n">HOUR</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">start</span> <span class="o">&lt;=</span> <span class="n">dt</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="n">start</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">HOUR</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="c1"># Gap (a non-existent hour): reverse the fold rule.</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">HOUR</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fold</span> <span class="k">else</span> <span class="n">ZERO</span>
        <span class="c1"># DST is off.</span>
        <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">ZERO</span>

    <span class="k">def</span> <span class="nf">fromutc</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="p">):</span>
        <span class="k">assert</span> <span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span> <span class="ow">is</span> <span class="bp">self</span>
        <span class="n">start</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">end</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">us_dst_range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">dt</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">year</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="n">start</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">start</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="n">end</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">end</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="bp">self</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="n">std_time</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">dt</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="bp">self</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">stdoffset</span>
        <span class="n">dst_time</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">std_time</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">HOUR</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">end</span> <span class="o">&lt;=</span> <span class="n">dst_time</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="n">end</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">HOUR</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="c1"># Repeated hour</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">std_time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">replace</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">fold</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">)</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">std_time</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="n">start</span> <span class="ow">or</span> <span class="n">dst_time</span> <span class="o">&gt;=</span> <span class="n">end</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="c1"># Standard time</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">std_time</span>
        <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">start</span> <span class="o">&lt;=</span> <span class="n">std_time</span> <span class="o">&lt;</span> <span class="n">end</span> <span class="o">-</span> <span class="n">HOUR</span><span class="p">:</span>
            <span class="c1"># Daylight saving time</span>
            <span class="k">return</span> <span class="n">dst_time</span>


<span class="n">Eastern</span>  <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">USTimeZone</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;Eastern&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>  <span class="s2">&quot;EST&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;EDT&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">Central</span>  <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">USTimeZone</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">6</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;Central&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>  <span class="s2">&quot;CST&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;CDT&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">Mountain</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">USTimeZone</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">7</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;Mountain&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;MST&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;MDT&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="n">Pacific</span>  <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">USTimeZone</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">-</span><span class="mi">8</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;Pacific&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>  <span class="s2">&quot;PST&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s2">&quot;PDT&quot;</span><span class="p">)</span>
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</div>
<p>Note that there are unavoidable subtleties twice per year in a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a>
subclass accounting for both standard and daylight time, at the DST transition
points. For concreteness, consider US Eastern (UTC -0500), where EDT begins the
minute after 1:59 (EST) on the second Sunday in March, and ends the minute after
1:59 (EDT) on the first Sunday in November:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>  <span class="n">UTC</span>   <span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">6</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">7</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">8</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>
  <span class="n">EST</span>  <span class="mi">22</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span> <span class="mi">23</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>
  <span class="n">EDT</span>  <span class="mi">23</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>

<span class="n">start</span>  <span class="mi">22</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span> <span class="mi">23</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>

  <span class="n">end</span>  <span class="mi">23</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">1</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">2</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>  <span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="n">MM</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>When DST starts (the “start” line), the local wall clock leaps from 1:59 to
3:00. A wall time of the form 2:MM doesn’t really make sense on that day, so
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">astimezone(Eastern)</span></code> won’t deliver a result with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">hour</span> <span class="pre">==</span> <span class="pre">2</span></code> on the day DST
begins. For example, at the Spring forward transition of 2016, we get:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">datetime</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">timezone</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="kn">from</span> <span class="nn">tzinfo_examples</span> <span class="kn">import</span> <span class="n">HOUR</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">Eastern</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">u0</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2016</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">3</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">13</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">5</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">timezone</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utc</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="n">u</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">u0</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">i</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">HOUR</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="n">t</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">u</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">astimezone</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Eastern</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">u</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="s1">&#39;UTC =&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">t</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="n">t</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzname</span><span class="p">())</span>
<span class="gp">...</span>
<span class="go">05:00:00 UTC = 00:00:00 EST</span>
<span class="go">06:00:00 UTC = 01:00:00 EST</span>
<span class="go">07:00:00 UTC = 03:00:00 EDT</span>
<span class="go">08:00:00 UTC = 04:00:00 EDT</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>When DST ends (the “end” line), there’s a potentially worse problem: there’s an
hour that can’t be spelled unambiguously in local wall time: the last hour of
daylight time. In Eastern, that’s times of the form 5:MM UTC on the day
daylight time ends. The local wall clock leaps from 1:59 (daylight time) back
to 1:00 (standard time) again. Local times of the form 1:MM are ambiguous.
<code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">astimezone()</span></code> mimics the local clock’s behavior by mapping two adjacent UTC
hours into the same local hour then. In the Eastern example, UTC times of the
form 5:MM and 6:MM both map to 1:MM when converted to Eastern, but earlier times
have the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.fold" title="datetime.datetime.fold"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fold</span></code></a> attribute set to 0 and the later times have it set to 1.
For example, at the Fall back transition of 2016, we get:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="n">u0</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">2016</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">11</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">6</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">tzinfo</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="n">timezone</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">utc</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">&gt;&gt;&gt; </span><span class="k">for</span> <span class="n">i</span> <span class="ow">in</span> <span class="nb">range</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="mi">4</span><span class="p">):</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="n">u</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">u0</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">i</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="n">HOUR</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="n">t</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">u</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">astimezone</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">Eastern</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">... </span>    <span class="nb">print</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">u</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="s1">&#39;UTC =&#39;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">t</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="n">t</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">tzname</span><span class="p">(),</span> <span class="n">t</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">fold</span><span class="p">)</span>
<span class="gp">...</span>
<span class="go">04:00:00 UTC = 00:00:00 EDT 0</span>
<span class="go">05:00:00 UTC = 01:00:00 EDT 0</span>
<span class="go">06:00:00 UTC = 01:00:00 EST 1</span>
<span class="go">07:00:00 UTC = 02:00:00 EST 0</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Note that the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> instances that differ only by the value of the
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.fold" title="datetime.datetime.fold"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fold</span></code></a> attribute are considered equal in comparisons.</p>
<p>Applications that can’t bear wall-time ambiguities should explicitly check the
value of the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.fold" title="datetime.datetime.fold"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">fold</span></code></a> attribute or avoid using hybrid
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> subclasses; there are no ambiguities when using <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timezone" title="datetime.timezone"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timezone</span></code></a>,
or any other fixed-offset <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a> subclass (such as a class representing
only EST (fixed offset -5 hours), or only EDT (fixed offset -4 hours)).</p>
<div class="admonition seealso">
<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
<dl>
<dt><a class="reference external" href="https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/tz.html">dateutil.tz</a></dt><dd><p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#module-datetime" title="datetime: Basic date and time types."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> module has a basic <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timezone" title="datetime.timezone"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timezone</span></code></a> class (for
handling arbitrary fixed offsets from UTC) and its <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timezone.utc" title="datetime.timezone.utc"><code class="xref py py-attr docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timezone.utc</span></code></a>
attribute (a UTC timezone instance).</p>
<p><em>dateutil.tz</em> library brings the <em>IANA timezone database</em>
(also known as the Olson database) to Python, and its usage is
recommended.</p>
</dd>
<dt><a class="reference external" href="https://www.iana.org/time-zones">IANA timezone database</a></dt><dd><p>The Time Zone Database (often called tz, tzdata or zoneinfo) contains code
and data that represent the history of local time for many representative
locations around the globe. It is updated periodically to reflect changes
made by political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC offsets, and
daylight-saving rules.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
</div>
</section>
<section id="timezone-objects">
<span id="datetime-timezone"></span><h2><a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timezone" title="datetime.timezone"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timezone</span></code></a> Objects<a class="headerlink" href="#timezone-objects" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timezone" title="datetime.timezone"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timezone</span></code></a> class is a subclass of <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.tzinfo" title="datetime.tzinfo"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code></a>, each
instance of which represents a timezone defined by a fixed offset from
UTC.</p>
<p>Objects of this class cannot be used to represent timezone information in the
locations where different offsets are used in different days of the year or
where historical changes have been made to civil time.</p>
<dl class="class">
<dt id="datetime.timezone">
<em class="property">class </em><code class="sig-prename descclassname">datetime.</code><code class="sig-name descname">timezone</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">offset</em>, <em class="sig-param">name=None</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.timezone" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The <em>offset</em> argument must be specified as a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a>
object representing the difference between the local time and UTC. It must
be strictly between <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">-timedelta(hours=24)</span></code> and
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta(hours=24)</span></code>, otherwise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a> is raised.</p>
<p>The <em>name</em> argument is optional. If specified it must be a string that
will be used as the value returned by the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.tzname" title="datetime.datetime.tzname"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.tzname()</span></code></a> method.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.2.</span></p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.7: </span>The UTC offset is not restricted to a whole number of minutes.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.timezone.utcoffset">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">timezone.</code><code class="sig-name descname">utcoffset</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">dt</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.timezone.utcoffset" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the fixed value specified when the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timezone" title="datetime.timezone"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timezone</span></code></a> instance is
constructed.</p>
<p>The <em>dt</em> argument is ignored. The return value is a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timedelta" title="datetime.timedelta"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta</span></code></a>
instance equal to the difference between the local time and UTC.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.7: </span>The UTC offset is not restricted to a whole number of minutes.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.timezone.tzname">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">timezone.</code><code class="sig-name descname">tzname</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">dt</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.timezone.tzname" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return the fixed value specified when the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timezone" title="datetime.timezone"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timezone</span></code></a> instance
is constructed.</p>
<p>If <em>name</em> is not provided in the constructor, the name returned by
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzname(dt)</span></code> is generated from the value of the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">offset</span></code> as follows. If
<em>offset</em> is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta(0)</span></code>, the name is “UTC”, otherwise it is a string in
the format <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">UTC±HH:MM</span></code>, where ± is the sign of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">offset</span></code>, HH and MM are
two digits of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">offset.hours</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">offset.minutes</span></code> respectively.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.6: </span>Name generated from <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">offset=timedelta(0)</span></code> is now plain <cite>‘UTC’</cite>, not
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'UTC+00:00'</span></code>.</p>
</div>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.timezone.dst">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">timezone.</code><code class="sig-name descname">dst</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">dt</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.timezone.dst" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Always returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<dl class="method">
<dt id="datetime.timezone.fromutc">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">timezone.</code><code class="sig-name descname">fromutc</code><span class="sig-paren">(</span><em class="sig-param">dt</em><span class="sig-paren">)</span><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.timezone.fromutc" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>Return <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">dt</span> <span class="pre">+</span> <span class="pre">offset</span></code>. The <em>dt</em> argument must be an aware
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> instance, with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code> set to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">self</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

<p>Class attributes:</p>
<dl class="attribute">
<dt id="datetime.timezone.utc">
<code class="sig-prename descclassname">timezone.</code><code class="sig-name descname">utc</code><a class="headerlink" href="#datetime.timezone.utc" title="Permalink to this definition">¶</a></dt>
<dd><p>The UTC timezone, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timezone(timedelta(0))</span></code>.</p>
</dd></dl>

</section>
<section id="strftime-and-strptime-behavior">
<span id="strftime-strptime-behavior"></span><span id="index-0"></span><h2><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code> and <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code> Behavior<a class="headerlink" href="#strftime-and-strptime-behavior" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a>, and <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> objects all support a
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime(format)</span></code> method, to create a string representing the time under the
control of an explicit format string.</p>
<p>Conversely, the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.strptime" title="datetime.datetime.strptime"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.strptime()</span></code></a> class method creates a
<a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object from a string representing a date and time and a
corresponding format string.</p>
<p>The table below provides a high-level comparison of <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code>
versus <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code>:</p>
<table class="docutils align-default">
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 11%" />
<col style="width: 37%" />
<col style="width: 52%" />
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"></th>
<th class="head"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime</span></code></p></th>
<th class="head"><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime</span></code></p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>Usage</p></td>
<td><p>Convert object to a string according to a given format</p></td>
<td><p>Parse a string into a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object given a corresponding format</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Type of method</p></td>
<td><p>Instance method</p></td>
<td><p>Class method</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p>Method of</p></td>
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a>; <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a>; <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a></p></td>
<td><p><a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a></p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p>Signature</p></td>
<td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime(format)</span></code></p></td>
<td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime(date_string,</span> <span class="pre">format)</span></code></p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<section id="strftime-and-strptime-format-codes">
<h3><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code> and <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code> Format Codes<a class="headerlink" href="#strftime-and-strptime-format-codes" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>The following is a list of all the format codes that the 1989 C standard
requires, and these work on all platforms with a standard C implementation.</p>
<table class="docutils align-default">
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 15%" />
<col style="width: 43%" />
<col style="width: 32%" />
<col style="width: 9%" />
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Directive</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Meaning</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Example</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Notes</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%a</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Weekday as locale’s
abbreviated name.</p></td>
<td><div class="line-block">
<div class="line">Sun, Mon, …, Sat
(en_US);</div>
<div class="line">So, Mo, …, Sa
(de_DE)</div>
</div>
</td>
<td><p>(1)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%A</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Weekday as locale’s full name.</p></td>
<td><div class="line-block">
<div class="line">Sunday, Monday, …,
Saturday (en_US);</div>
<div class="line">Sonntag, Montag, …,
Samstag (de_DE)</div>
</div>
</td>
<td><p>(1)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%w</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Weekday as a decimal number,
where 0 is Sunday and 6 is
Saturday.</p></td>
<td><p>0, 1, …, 6</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%d</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Day of the month as a
zero-padded decimal number.</p></td>
<td><p>01, 02, …, 31</p></td>
<td><p>(9)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%b</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Month as locale’s abbreviated
name.</p></td>
<td><div class="line-block">
<div class="line">Jan, Feb, …, Dec
(en_US);</div>
<div class="line">Jan, Feb, …, Dez
(de_DE)</div>
</div>
</td>
<td><p>(1)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%B</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Month as locale’s full name.</p></td>
<td><div class="line-block">
<div class="line">January, February,
…, December (en_US);</div>
<div class="line">Januar, Februar, …,
Dezember (de_DE)</div>
</div>
</td>
<td><p>(1)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%m</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Month as a zero-padded
decimal number.</p></td>
<td><p>01, 02, …, 12</p></td>
<td><p>(9)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%y</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Year without century as a
zero-padded decimal number.</p></td>
<td><p>00, 01, …, 99</p></td>
<td><p>(9)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%Y</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Year with century as a decimal
number.</p></td>
<td><p>0001, 0002, …, 2013,
2014, …, 9998, 9999</p></td>
<td><p>(2)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%H</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Hour (24-hour clock) as a
zero-padded decimal number.</p></td>
<td><p>00, 01, …, 23</p></td>
<td><p>(9)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%I</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Hour (12-hour clock) as a
zero-padded decimal number.</p></td>
<td><p>01, 02, …, 12</p></td>
<td><p>(9)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%p</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Locale’s equivalent of either
AM or PM.</p></td>
<td><div class="line-block">
<div class="line">AM, PM (en_US);</div>
<div class="line">am, pm (de_DE)</div>
</div>
</td>
<td><p>(1),
(3)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%M</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Minute as a zero-padded
decimal number.</p></td>
<td><p>00, 01, …, 59</p></td>
<td><p>(9)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%S</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Second as a zero-padded
decimal number.</p></td>
<td><p>00, 01, …, 59</p></td>
<td><p>(4),
(9)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%f</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Microsecond as a decimal
number, zero-padded on the
left.</p></td>
<td><p>000000, 000001, …,
999999</p></td>
<td><p>(5)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%z</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>UTC offset in the form
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">±HHMM[SS[.ffffff]]</span></code> (empty
string if the object is
naive).</p></td>
<td><p>(empty), +0000,
-0400, +1030,
+063415,
-030712.345216</p></td>
<td><p>(6)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%Z</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Time zone name (empty string
if the object is naive).</p></td>
<td><p>(empty), UTC, GMT</p></td>
<td><p>(6)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%j</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Day of the year as a
zero-padded decimal number.</p></td>
<td><p>001, 002, …, 366</p></td>
<td><p>(9)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%U</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Week number of the year
(Sunday as the first day of
the week) as a zero padded
decimal number. All days in a
new year preceding the first
Sunday are considered to be in
week 0.</p></td>
<td><p>00, 01, …, 53</p></td>
<td><p>(7),
(9)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%W</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Week number of the year
(Monday as the first day of
the week) as a decimal number.
All days in a new year
preceding the first Monday
are considered to be in
week 0.</p></td>
<td><p>00, 01, …, 53</p></td>
<td><p>(7),
(9)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%c</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Locale’s appropriate date and
time representation.</p></td>
<td><div class="line-block">
<div class="line">Tue Aug 16 21:30:00
1988 (en_US);</div>
<div class="line">Di 16 Aug 21:30:00
1988 (de_DE)</div>
</div>
</td>
<td><p>(1)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%x</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Locale’s appropriate date
representation.</p></td>
<td><div class="line-block">
<div class="line">08/16/88 (None);</div>
<div class="line">08/16/1988 (en_US);</div>
<div class="line">16.08.1988 (de_DE)</div>
</div>
</td>
<td><p>(1)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%X</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>Locale’s appropriate time
representation.</p></td>
<td><div class="line-block">
<div class="line">21:30:00 (en_US);</div>
<div class="line">21:30:00 (de_DE)</div>
</div>
</td>
<td><p>(1)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%%</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>A literal <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'%'</span></code> character.</p></td>
<td><p>%</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Several additional directives not required by the C89 standard are included for
convenience. These parameters all correspond to ISO 8601 date values.</p>
<table class="docutils align-default">
<colgroup>
<col style="width: 15%" />
<col style="width: 43%" />
<col style="width: 32%" />
<col style="width: 9%" />
</colgroup>
<thead>
<tr class="row-odd"><th class="head"><p>Directive</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Meaning</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Example</p></th>
<th class="head"><p>Notes</p></th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%G</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>ISO 8601 year with century
representing the year that
contains the greater part of
the ISO week (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%V</span></code>).</p></td>
<td><p>0001, 0002, …, 2013,
2014, …, 9998, 9999</p></td>
<td><p>(8)</p></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-odd"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%u</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>ISO 8601 weekday as a decimal
number where 1 is Monday.</p></td>
<td><p>1, 2, …, 7</p></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<tr class="row-even"><td><p><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%V</span></code></p></td>
<td><p>ISO 8601 week as a decimal
number with Monday as
the first day of the week.
Week 01 is the week containing
Jan 4.</p></td>
<td><p>01, 02, …, 53</p></td>
<td><p>(8),
(9)</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>These may not be available on all platforms when used with the <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code>
method. The ISO 8601 year and ISO 8601 week directives are not interchangeable
with the year and week number directives above. Calling <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code> with
incomplete or ambiguous ISO 8601 directives will raise a <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#ValueError" title="ValueError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code></a>.</p>
<p>The full set of format codes supported varies across platforms, because Python
calls the platform C library’s <code class="xref py py-func docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code> function, and platform
variations are common. To see the full set of format codes supported on your
platform, consult the <em class="manpage"><a class="manpage reference external" href="https://manpages.debian.org/strftime(3)">strftime(3)</a></em> documentation.</p>
<div class="versionadded">
<p><span class="versionmodified added">New in version 3.6: </span><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%G</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%u</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%V</span></code> were added.</p>
</div>
</section>
<section id="technical-detail">
<h3>Technical Detail<a class="headerlink" href="#technical-detail" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<p>Broadly speaking, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">d.strftime(fmt)</span></code> acts like the <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#module-time" title="time: Time access and conversions."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> module’s
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.strftime(fmt,</span> <span class="pre">d.timetuple())</span></code> although not all objects support a
<code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timetuple()</span></code> method.</p>
<p>For the <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime.strptime" title="datetime.datetime.strptime"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.strptime()</span></code></a> class method, the default value is
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1900-01-01T00:00:00.000</span></code>: any components not specified in the format string
will be pulled from the default value. <a class="footnote-reference brackets" href="#id8" id="id4">4</a></p>
<p>Using <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.strptime(date_string,</span> <span class="pre">format)</span></code> is equivalent to:</p>
<div class="highlight-python3 notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="n">datetime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="o">*</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">time</span><span class="o">.</span><span class="n">strptime</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">date_string</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="nb">format</span><span class="p">)[</span><span class="mi">0</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="mi">6</span><span class="p">]))</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>except when the format includes sub-second components or timezone offset
information, which are supported in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.strptime</span></code> but are discarded by
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.strptime</span></code>.</p>
<p>For <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.time" title="datetime.time"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> objects, the format codes for year, month, and day should not
be used, as <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#module-time" title="time: Time access and conversions."><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> objects have no such values. If they’re used anyway,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1900</span></code> is substituted for the year, and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1</span></code> for the month and day.</p>
<p>For <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> objects, the format codes for hours, minutes, seconds, and
microseconds should not be used, as <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.date" title="datetime.date"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">date</span></code></a> objects have no such
values. If they’re used anyway, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">0</span></code> is substituted for them.</p>
<p>For the same reason, handling of format strings containing Unicode code points
that can’t be represented in the charset of the current locale is also
platform-dependent. On some platforms such code points are preserved intact in
the output, while on others <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime</span></code> may raise <a class="reference internal" href="exceptions.html#UnicodeError" title="UnicodeError"><code class="xref py py-exc docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">UnicodeError</span></code></a> or return
an empty string instead.</p>
<p>Notes:</p>
<ol class="arabic">
<li><p>Because the format depends on the current locale, care should be taken when
making assumptions about the output value. Field orderings will vary (for
example, “month/day/year” versus “day/month/year”), and the output may
contain Unicode characters encoded using the locale’s default encoding (for
example, if the current locale is <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ja_JP</span></code>, the default encoding could be
any one of <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">eucJP</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SJIS</span></code>, or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">utf-8</span></code>; use <a class="reference internal" href="locale.html#locale.getlocale" title="locale.getlocale"><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">locale.getlocale()</span></code></a>
to determine the current locale’s encoding).</p></li>
<li><p>The <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code> method can parse years in the full [1, 9999] range, but
years &lt; 1000 must be zero-filled to 4-digit width.</p>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.2: </span>In previous versions, <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code> method was restricted to
years &gt;= 1900.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.3: </span>In version 3.2, <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code> method was restricted to
years &gt;= 1000.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li><p>When used with the <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code> method, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%p</span></code> directive only affects
the output hour field if the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%I</span></code> directive is used to parse the hour.</p></li>
<li><p>Unlike the <a class="reference internal" href="time.html#module-time" title="time: Time access and conversions."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time</span></code></a> module, the <a class="reference internal" href="#module-datetime" title="datetime: Basic date and time types."><code class="xref py py-mod docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> module does not support
leap seconds.</p></li>
<li><p>When used with the <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code> method, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%f</span></code> directive
accepts from one to six digits and zero pads on the right. <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%f</span></code> is
an extension to the set of format characters in the C standard (but
implemented separately in datetime objects, and therefore always
available).</p></li>
<li><p>For a naive object, the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%z</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%Z</span></code> format codes are replaced by empty
strings.</p>
<p>For an aware object:</p>
<dl class="simple">
<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%z</span></code></dt><dd><p><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">utcoffset()</span></code> is transformed into a string of the form
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">±HHMM[SS[.ffffff]]</span></code>, where <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">HH</span></code> is a 2-digit string giving the number
of UTC offset hours, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">MM</span></code> is a 2-digit string giving the number of UTC
offset minutes, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SS</span></code> is a 2-digit string giving the number of UTC offset
seconds and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ffffff</span></code> is a 6-digit string giving the number of UTC
offset microseconds. The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ffffff</span></code> part is omitted when the offset is a
whole number of seconds and both the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ffffff</span></code> and the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">SS</span></code> part is
omitted when the offset is a whole number of minutes. For example, if
<code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">utcoffset()</span></code> returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timedelta(hours=-3,</span> <span class="pre">minutes=-30)</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%z</span></code> is
replaced with the string <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'-0330'</span></code>.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.7: </span>The UTC offset is not restricted to a whole number of minutes.</p>
</div>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.7: </span>When the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%z</span></code> directive is provided to the  <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code> method,
the UTC offsets can have a colon as a separator between hours, minutes
and seconds.
For example, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'+01:00:00'</span></code> will be parsed as an offset of one hour.
In addition, providing <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'Z'</span></code> is identical to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">'+00:00'</span></code>.</p>
</div>
<dl>
<dt><code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%Z</span></code></dt><dd><p>In <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strftime()</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%Z</span></code> is replaced by an empty string if
<code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzname()</span></code> returns <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">None</span></code>; otherwise <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%Z</span></code> is replaced by the
returned value, which must be a string.</p>
<p><code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code> only accepts certain values for <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%Z</span></code>:</p>
<ol class="arabic simple">
<li><p>any value in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">time.tzname</span></code> for your machine’s locale</p></li>
<li><p>the hard-coded values <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">UTC</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">GMT</span></code></p></li>
</ol>
<p>So someone living in Japan may have <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">JST</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">UTC</span></code>, and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">GMT</span></code> as
valid values, but probably not <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">EST</span></code>. It will raise <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">ValueError</span></code> for
invalid values.</p>
</dd>
</dl>
<div class="versionchanged">
<p><span class="versionmodified changed">Changed in version 3.2: </span>When the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%z</span></code> directive is provided to the <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code> method, an
aware <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.datetime" title="datetime.datetime"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime</span></code></a> object will be produced. The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">tzinfo</span></code> of the
result will be set to a <a class="reference internal" href="#datetime.timezone" title="datetime.timezone"><code class="xref py py-class docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">timezone</span></code></a> instance.</p>
</div>
</li>
<li><p>When used with the <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code> method, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%U</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%W</span></code> are only used
in calculations when the day of the week and the calendar year (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%Y</span></code>)
are specified.</p></li>
<li><p>Similar to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%U</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%W</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%V</span></code> is only used in calculations when the
day of the week and the ISO year (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%G</span></code>) are specified in a
<code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code> format string. Also note that <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%G</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%Y</span></code> are not
interchangeable.</p></li>
<li><p>When used with the <code class="xref py py-meth docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">strptime()</span></code> method, the leading zero is optional
for  formats <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%d</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%m</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%H</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%I</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%M</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%S</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%J</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%U</span></code>,
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%W</span></code>, and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%V</span></code>. Format <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">%y</span></code> does require a leading zero.</p></li>
</ol>
<p class="rubric">Footnotes</p>
<dl class="footnote brackets">
<dt class="label" id="id5"><span class="brackets"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id1">1</a></span></dt>
<dd><p>If, that is, we ignore the effects of Relativity</p>
</dd>
<dt class="label" id="id6"><span class="brackets"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id2">2</a></span></dt>
<dd><p>This matches the definition of the “proleptic Gregorian” calendar in
Dershowitz and Reingold’s book <em>Calendrical Calculations</em>,
where it’s the base calendar for all computations. See the book for
algorithms for converting between proleptic Gregorian ordinals and
many other calendar systems.</p>
</dd>
<dt class="label" id="id7"><span class="brackets"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id3">3</a></span></dt>
<dd><p>See R. H. van Gent’s <a class="reference external" href="https://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~gent0113/calendar/isocalendar.htm">guide to the mathematics of the ISO 8601 calendar</a>
for a good explanation.</p>
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<dd><p>Passing <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">datetime.strptime('Feb</span> <span class="pre">29',</span> <span class="pre">'%b</span> <span class="pre">%d')</span></code> will fail since <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">1900</span></code> is not a leap year.</p>
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